Coolio's manager, Jarez Posey, said the rapper's family had been informed on Thursday by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office that the singer had died from a fentanyl overdose. The coroner's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Posey said the rapper...
Actor and rapper Nashawn Breedlove, who faced off against Eminem in a rap battle on the movie "8 Mile," has died. He was 46 years old. According to TMZ, who first confirmed the news, he died in his sleep at his home in New Jersey Sunday. The cause of death is currently unknown. ...
DMX has died at the age of 50 .The influential rapper's death was announced on Friday (April 9) after reportedly suffering an overdose that resulted in a heart attack on April 2, XXL has confirmed.
Biz Markie, the pioneering rapper, producer, and beatboxer whose jovial goofiness, boundless, off-kilter creativity and innovative music made him a singular presence in both hip-hop and pop culture at large, died Friday at the age of 57. “It is with profound sadness that we announce, this...
Earl Simmons, the rapper better known asDMX, died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, one week after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old. Simmons’ family said they were “deeply saddened” to announce the rapper’s death, adding that he died “with...
Died:April 17, 2022 Cause of Death:COVID-19 DJ Kay Slay passed away after a four-month battle with COVID-19. New York radio station Hot 97, where the influential DJ worked for 20 years, confirmed the sad news. He was 55 years old. ...
Trugoy The Dove,one-third of the iconic hip-hop trioDe La Soul, died at age 54. A publicist for the late rapper confirmed the sad news toRolling Stone. The cause of death remains unknown. Trugoy had been candid in the past about his battle with congestive heart failure. In a2017 video...
Tupac Shakur was a sensitive, precociously talented yet troubled soul who came to embrace the 1990s gangsta-rap aesthetic and paid the ultimate price — he was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996 and died six days later. His murder has never been solved. He began his music care...
NEW YORK (AP) — DMX, the iconic hip-hop artist behind the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)” whose distinctively gruff voice and thoughtful messages in his rhymes made him one of rap’s biggest stars, has died, according to a family statement Friday...
DMX, a rapper known as much for his troubles as his music, has died, his family announced in a statement. He was 50. “We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50-years-old at White Plains Hospital with his family...