A Brooklyn rapper trying to promote his CD at the MTV headquaters was arrested on Tuesday (June 28th), after he climbed atop a 25-foot light pole and began rapping.
Reports from AllHipHop.com said C.I. Joe, born Raymond Velasquez, 34, climbed on top of the pole at 44th St. and 7th Avenue after the rapper had just been thrown out of the MTV offices.
C.I. Joe climbed on top of the pole, threw copies of his demo CD to the crowd and rapped to curious onlookers, who thought that incident was a staged stunt.
Police arrived with yellow airbags that onlookers realized that the rapper’s life was in danger. Police talked the rapper down from the light pole and sent him to Bellevue Mental Hospital for an psychiatric evaluation.
Charges against the rapper are pending.
