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Rapper Tru Life has been arrested for last week's stabbing death of a teenager in Manhattan. The Daily News reports that the rapper—whose real name is Roberto Guzman Rosado Jr.—surrendered to police Wednesday night along with his brother, who also faces murder charges. Police say the pair were looking to avenge a drug dealer's death when they chased the victim into an East 26th Street apartment lobby before fatally stabbing him in the face and chest on June 15; another man, Jason Black, was also stabbed but survived. Sources say that the fatal shooting of a drug dealer just hours before the stabbing may have been due to an ongoing dispute between Black and Tru-Life's brother. Tru Life had been recently working on an album for release this year under Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records label. He also appeared in 2003's film Beef, a documentary of hip-hop rivalries that included Tru Life's feuds with other New York rappers.

Yesterday morning, two men were stabbed in the lobby of an apartment building on East 26th Street near Second Avenue in Manhattan. According to the Daily News, it's believed the suspects were "Gang members looking to avenge the shooting of a drug dealer... Investigators believe five men were waiting in parked cars outside the... building and jumped their victims when they stepped into the lobby just before 9:30 a.m." An 18-year-old died while a 30-year-old survived his stab wounds—both were stabbed repeatedly in the face and chest. The incident that spurred that stabbing is apparently a 4 a.m. shooting that occurred outside Pacha on West 46th Street; suspected drug dealer Michael Slater is in stable condition at Bellevue, which is just a few blocks away from the apartment building. A 21-year-old newcomer to the neighborhood told the News, "I moved here from Missouri yesterday. I didn't expect to step outside on my first morning here and see someone almost dead."