A Mount Vernon woman allegedly killed by her uncle amid a family property dispute had once chased music stardom as an aspiring rapper who shared a track with Jadakiss.
Julia Anderson performed under the name “Jewelz Champaign” and worked with the New York hip-hop legend, including an appearance on his 2010 track “Coach of the Year,” her father, Julius Anderson, told The Post.
“I still can’t get my head around it,” the grieving father said, struggling to process the fatal shooting.
“She was my beautiful daughter, my first. She made me smile all the time.”
Julius Anderson said his daughter had recorded her own album but eventually walked away from the music business years earlier, frustrated by parts of the industry she could not accept.
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“She said, ‘Dad, I can’t make myself do all those things,’ so she stopped,” he recalled, declining to go into detail.
He remembered her as quick-witted and naturally magnetic. “She had lots of jokes because she was an artist. She was an entertainer, and they are unique in that sense,” he said.
Michael Foster, 58, has been charged with fatally shooting his niece outside her workplace in the Bronx on Monday, following a bitter dispute over a family home in Mount Vernon, law enforcement sources have said.
Foster also once did prison time for the drive-by murder of former NFL star Ray Rice’s father.
He and his niece were embroiled into a legal dispute over a home at 18 Bell Ave. in Mount Vernon — when he allegedly shot her several times in the stomach as she was about to step into her Jeep in Wakefield.
