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’80s Rapper Kurtis Blow Pay Homage To LAPD

’80 Rapper Kurtis Blow pay homage to LAPD. four Los Angeles Police Department officers are being credited for saving 1980s hip-hop artist Kurtis Blow’s life last Saturday near the Westfield Topanga mall in Canoga Park.

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Kurtis Walker, known in the hip-hop world as Kurtis Blow, is thanking the cops who saved his life over the weekend after he had a heart attack in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles. Blow, according to the LAPD, collapsed from a cardiac arrest around 9 p.m. Oct. 29 near a bus stop at Owensmouth Avenue north of Oxnard Street near the Topanga mall, and officers performed chest compressions for three to five minutes before paramedics arrived to take over first-aid.

“I died — and these officers saved my life,” Blow, 57, said in a statement. “The police saved my life — a black man. In this day and age, people need to hear that!”

Officer Chris Vege, assigned to the Topanga Area Gang Unit, said the officers drove to West Hills Hospital later to see how Blow was doing, and several people made “a big deal” about saving Blow’s life. Blow, recognized as the first rapper to sign with a major record label, is known for hit songs like “The Breaks,” “Basketball” and “8 Million Stories.”

“We were happy for him and his family that he pulled through .It could have been much worse”. Vege said

A mall security guard witnessed a younger man yelling at an older man at the bus stop. An initial 9-1-1 call described it as a robbery.

When LAPD officers Felix Rodriguez and Peter Parra arrived, they learned there was no robbery but an argument between Blow — real last name of Walker — and his 20-something son. Officers Vege and Calvin Hill Jr., arrived soon after.

 

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