MANDEL: Regent Park rapper accused of murder takes the stand

On trial for second-degree murder, the Regent Park rapper known as Big Rax is telling the jury that he was afraid for his life.

In fact, he said “I was scared for my life” at least half a dozen times.

In his cream suit and hair neatly pulled back in a braid, Ridge Kazumba calmly explained that his friend had just been gunned down the month before and he’d recently received death threats just before he opened fire in a St. Clair Ave. restaurant on that summer evening in August 2023, leaving 23-year-old Negus Henry-Robinson dead.

There was always a target on his back, Kazumba told his defence lawyer, Mary Cremer, and he thought his time was up. “My reality, where I come from, when you kill an artist from Regent Park, it’s like a

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