Irish rap star’s close encounter with a suicide
attempt
Lucci
Minx is one of Ireland's up and coming rap artists and singer song writer, in
July this year while out scouting for a location for her new video in Tallaght,
Lucci came across a young man sitting on top of the main Tallaght bridge that
spans over the duel carriage and the Dodder River, it looked quite obvious the
young man was about to jump off and although other people could see this, they
just walked by. Lucci a young woman of 27yrs herself and although
frightened by the sight, decided to stop and at least try to talk this young
man also in his 20s,her first though on seeing the young man was "oh lord
what have I walked into here “but in her heart she felt that there was a reason
God had her there that day, a conversion began between the two young strangers.
Lucci's
first question to Tom(we will call him here)was, “are you ok", he replied,
“no misses, I am sick of life, all my friends are dead, my family hate me and I
have had enough". Lucci spoke for a time with Tom, asking him his name and
where he was from, he told her he was from Tallaght and that his parents had
split up, Lucci then preceded to ask him did he do drugs and drink, he told her
he’s had been off Heroine for months but did take a drink on occasions. Lucci
took the brave step of telling him how much his drug addiction must have hurt
his family and to try understand how hard it must have been for them.
Lucci
asked Tom where was he living now, he replied, nowhere, he sleeps in the fields
and or anywhere he can find like that, she suggested he try the hostels in the
city but he told her they were too dangerous for him and he would find himself
back on Heroine very quickly as its rampant in these places plus there are
always fights there, he was frightened and the temptation of drugs would be too
strong for him. Tom also told Lucci how one time he had a bad turn on the drugs
and died but was brought to life, he was not afraid to die.
As Lucci
continued chatting to the stranger, he seemed to relax a little and although
shaking herself, Lucci could not bear to witness anyone killing themselves in
such a horrible manner, jumping off a very high bridge, much to Lucci's relief,
Tom preceded to climb down from the bridge, she gave him 10euros, to buy some
food, he thanked her and as she watched him walk away she felt a huge sigh of
relief come over her, I asked her would she do it again, she said, defiantly, "believe
God puts us in places for a reason and if we can help somebody and save them
from doing something bad, then we must take the courage to do so. Lucci was
also inspired by her own experience of being attacked by a couple outside a
club she was working for in town a few years previous, people walked by and did
nothing to help her, it left her feeling very shocked as she was an innocent
victim in this case.
Lucci is
currently working with four other female Irish Rap artists and is currently
releasing a solo song called “Love Hate You”, which releases on iTunes
September 23rd, her video won an award for best Video by an
independent music fest in Cork, the song can be viewed on YouTube.
Photos: Una Williams Photography
