The Modesto hip-hop festival of 2027 featured a variety of acts from around Northern California. The headliner for the festival was GoGo Shebana. She had a popular song, Your Monkey Wrench Ain’t the Right Tool for My Engine, that received a lot of airplay and attention online because it was part of the soundtrack in the car-centered movie Hot Rod 27. GoGo Shebana and her entourage, the Nigubians, went to a concert after-party with several dozen people, including another group known as Dimestyle and the Nickel-bags (DSNB). GoGo’s producer, Calloway Shippendos, made all the arrangements for the party. A couple of months before the festival, he found a former automobile showroom, a large space in a cul-de-sac off of the northern part of McHenry Avenue in Modesto. He hired security personnel, a caterer, and other people to decorate the place according to his instructions.
After everyone was extremely intoxicated, and despite impassioned pleas from her producer, GoGo’s group left the festivities and caravanned themselves right into a fire hydrant less than a block away. They all tumbled out of their cars, laughing hysterically while water gushed high into the air, the spray falling back down like a highly localized spring rain.
Unfortunately, one of the Nigubians, a 22-year-old man who called himself Jackson Bollocks, took a dose of Goofron-63, a type of methamphetamine known to induce an ultra-paranoid state fueled by hallucinations. He started shaking violently, a characteristic behavior associated with G-63. This was colloquially known as the “zombie shivers.” The shivers usually preceded the cataleptic “Frankenstein” stage of a Goofron episode, because of the extreme stiffening of the joints that affected its users. The third and final phase of a G-63 event was the most dangerous to others because as previously noted, Goofron-63 induced paranoid delusions. Users flailed about, screaming at the top of their lungs, and like a wounded wild boar, attacked anyone in sight.
Jackson Bollocks the Nigubian saw lavender-colored tyrannosauruses everywhere he looked. One of them asked, “Where you goin’ Goozbee?” He turned and saw another lavender tyrannosaurus growling, ready to attack. That is when the gun came out. That’s when the shooting started.
The media headline “Shebana, Goofron, Goozbee, Goodbye” won an award for the creative use of a comedic headline for a serious crime story. Nathan “Goozbee” Phillips, also known as Jackson Bollocks, killed GoGo Shebana and all the other Nigubians. When the police arrived, they found Goozbee doused with gasoline and sitting cross-legged in the middle of the street, like a self-immolating monk protesting a war. Mr. Phillips chanted. “Your clothes are flammable, and I gots a match; blow the candle, meet Old Scratch.” Phillips had no matches, and after being hosed off with flame retardant, he was arrested without incident.
Thanks to 3D imaging technology introduced to the public in 2012 at a music festival in California South, GoGo Shebana, whose legal name was Hortencia Babinot, “performed” at several music festivals for two years after her death. This was stipulated in the latest edition of her last will and testament. In addition to satisfying her financial obligations, her will required that her assets be liquidated upon her death. The Jackson family of Modesto loved and raised Hortencia Babinot from the time she was nine years old until she aged out of the foster care system. The Jacksons received about $325,000 from the Babinot estate. The rest of the money, approximately two and a half million dollars, was donated to a couple of organizations that supported children in foster care. Ms. Babinot had no heirs.
Evan Jackson the third, an 80-year-old retired teacher and his wife were foster parents to Hortencia Babinot. Mr. Jackson told reporters, “We loved Hortencia dearly and supported her as best as we could. She was in the last half of the third grade when she came into our lives. Both her parents had been murdered and she had no other relatives who were able to take her in. We made sure she graduated from high school and I think she started rapping publicly during her senior year. We helped her find good representation, people with the highest ethical standards, and they really protected her and looked after her best interests. She became a success and we’re so happy she came into our lives. We loved her.”