Mars is an American Horrorcore rapper from the San Francisco Bay Area

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Biography

In 2005, he received national attention when fan Jeff Weise

Jeff Weise

Jeffrey James "Jeff" Weise was an Ojibwe Native American adolescent, and a student at Red Lake Senior High School in Red Lake, Minnesota. He murdered nine people and wounded five others in a shooting spree on March 21, 2005, in the Red Lake Indian Reservation located in northwest Minnesota...

 frequented Mars' website and forum before killing nine people. Mars has stated on his website there was no link to Jeff whatsoever.
In 2009, Mars received attention when it was learned that Mars' music was an influence on the music of horrorcore fan Richard Sam McCroskey, who allegedly killed four people. McCroskey's MySpace

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 page listed Mars as his favorite rapper, and Mars told law enforcement he had seen and signed autographs for McCroskey at various events before the murders. From these events, he has been interviewed by several TV news outlets around the United States including CBS News

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, Fox News, ABC News

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, and CNN

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Mars releases his music on Mad Insanity Records, including his most recent School House Glock: Extra Credit (2009, EP).

Discography

• S.I.D.S (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) (LP) (1998)
• Mistreat (Single) (2001)
• Some Girls Deserve To Die (LP) (Unreleased) (2004)
• Mars Attacks Limited Edition (EP) (2005)
• Mars Attacks (EP) (2006)
• School House Glock (EP) (2008)
• School House Glock: Extra Credit (EP) (June 30, 2009)

External links

• The Official Mars Website
• The Official Mars Twitter
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• The Official Mars Facebook
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• The Official Mars MySpace
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