Bloodshed (born Derek Armstead) was an African American rapper, usually affiliated with Harlemites Big L, Ma$e and Camron (who was Bloodshed's cousin). For a short while he was in the rap group "Children of the Corn" until he died in a fatal car accident on April 1996, in his hometown of Harlem. His voice was similar to his cousin Camron's, but is more rough and raspy..