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Infobox musical artist | name = Young Lay| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Lathan Williams| alias =| birth_date = birth year and age|1975| birth_place = Vallejo, California|Vallejo , California , United States|U.S. | origin =| instrument =| genre = West Coast hip hop , Gangsta rap | occupation = Rapper | years_active = 1994–2004| label =| associated_acts = Mac Dre , Ray Luv , Dubee , Mac Mall | website =| notable_instruments = Lathan Williams (born 1975 in Vallejo, California|Vallejo , California ), better known by his stage name Young Lay , is a San Francisco Bay Area -based gangsta rap per.
He has worked with artists such as label mate Ray Luv , Tupac Shakur and Mac Dre .
Young Lay was becoming popular when a 1995 attempt was made on Lay's life when he was shot in the head while stopped at a Vallejo traffic light as a passenger in a friend's car. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=SR& p_theme=sr& p_action=search& p_maxdocs=200& p_topdoc=1& p_text_direct-0=0EAF467870866E97& p_field_direct-0=document_id& p_perpage=10& p_sort=YMD_date:D& s_trackval=GooglePM Although critically injured, Lay survived and went on to resume rapping after extensive therapy for brain damage in which he had to learn to speak again.
On May 17, 1996, Lay's infant son Le-Zhan Williams was kidnapped when 2 teenage girls entered the home of Daphne Boyden, the rapper's 17 year old girlfriend and mother to his newborn, killed her, abducted the infant, and set the home on fire in an attempt to cover up the crime. The case went unsolved for 6 years, and was featured on the television shows America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries.
In November 2002 an anonymous tip called in to Vallejo police led to the arrest of Latasha Brown, one of the killers, who had been raising the abducted infant as her own, along with her mother Delores Ann Brown, who was also arrested. They were still living in Vallejo, not far from where Daphne Boyden was murdered. Latasha Brown's cousin Ocianetta Williams was identified as the second teenage girl responsible for the murder and abduction and both were arrested by the Vallejo Police Department. The now 6-year-old Le-Zhan was reunited with family soon after their arrest. It is unknown what lasting emotional trauma has been caused to the child from being forcibly taken and withheld from his family while being raised for 6 years by his mother's killer.
"Young Lay" Williams was sentenced to a 12 year prison sentence for a 1999 armed robbery http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/c/a/2002/12/09/BA80164.DTL. He was released from prison in 2010. He was interviewed on Dznuttsradio 5/19/10.
1996: "Pimp Or Die" ( Mac Mall feat. Ray Luv & Young Lay)
2000: "Love Me Then Hate Me" (Smoov-E feat. Young Lay)
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Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:African American musicians Category:African American rappers Category:Musicians from California Category:People from San Francisco, California Category:People from Vallejo, California Category:Rappers from the San Francisco Bay Area Category:American shooting survivors
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