WOODIE

Fed up with a life of gang-related violence and hopelessness, Woodie dedicated himself to rap music and quickly rose through the ranks of the Cali Bay Area's underground scene, eventually signing to Koch Records. Hailing from Antioch, CA, Woodie (born Ryan Wood) grew up in an environment filled with gangs, drugs, violence, and crime. Life was rough. For example, Woodie's friend, Carlos ?Blackbird? Ramirez, was shot to death by local police, another close friend, Gabriel ?Snoop? Robinson, was locked up in Folsom Prison for a crime he didn't commit...

Ryan "Woodie" Wood, a popular Northern California Norteno rapper, died Wednesday, March 7,2007. It seems impossible to find any official source of information his death. But the concensus seems to be that Woodie, despondent over the recent death of his girl friend whom he was to marry, shot himself. Although some speculate that his death was a gang killing set up to look like a suicide, most feel otherwise.