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Malcolm James McCormick (January 19, 1992 – September 7, 2018), known professionally as Mac Miller, was an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Miller began his career in Pittsburgh's local hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of 15. In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough ...
This is a list of notable rappers and hip hop musicians murdered since 1987. Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of age. Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to ...
Prostate cancer [ 21] Zeno Roth. Uli Jon Roth. 61. February 5, 2018. [ 22] John Perry Barlow. Lyricist for The Grateful Dead, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. 70.
Craig Jamieson Mack was born in The Bronx, New York, and raised on Long Island. [ 2] He began rapping as a teenager under the name MC EZ. His first single, "Get Retarded", was released in 1988 via Fresh Records. The single was backed with and credited as MC EZ & Troup. Mack became friends with fellow Long Island hip hop act EPMD and eventually ...
The fatal shooting of rapper Half Ounce has ... These rappers are part of a string of artists who have died by gun violence, with at least one rapper being fatally shot every year since 2018.
Juice Wrld. Jarad Anthony Higgins (December 2, 1998 – December 8, 2019), known professionally as Juice Wrld (pronounced "juice world"; stylized as Juice WRLD ), was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. Throughout a career of four years, he was a leading figure in the emo rap and SoundCloud rap genres which garnered mainstream attention ...
XXXTentacion. Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy (January 23, 1998 – June 18, 2018), known professionally as XXXTentacion, [ c] ( English: / ɛksɛksɛksˌtɛntəsˈjoʊn / eks-eks-eks-TEN-təss-YOHN[ 14] Spanish pronunciation: [tentaˈsjon]) was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. [ 15][ 16] Though a controversial figure due to his widely ...
Young Greatness. Theodore Joseph Jones III (September 19, 1984 – October 29, 2018), [ 1] better known by his stage name Young Greatness, was an American rapper. He was best known for his 2015 single "Moolah", [ 2] which peaked at number 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [ 3] He was shot and killed in October 2018. [ 2]