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Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to 32 times higher. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some reasons cited for the high homicide rate include poor background of many artists, criminal gang activity, drug use, and inadequate pastoral care among artists and record labels.
Many musicians have been murdered during their active career. Most of the musicians had been shot or stabbed to death. Some of them have received extensive media attention, including the murder of John Lennon in 1980, the killing of Marvin Gaye in 1984, the murder of Selena in 1995, the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, the murder of XXXTentacion in ...
In early 2009, Jem revealed "The track is about losing someone and I wrote it the day after his friend Proof was murdered. I was in Detroit with Eminem's friends, who I happened to be recording with, when it happened". [23] Eminem eulogized his friend with the unreleased track "Difficult", which leaked to the public in 2010. [24]
In the song Eminem, 51, rapped: “Kells, the day you put out a hit’s the day Diddy admits that he put the hit out that got Pac killed, ah!” in reference to the infamous 1996 drive-by shooting ...
Eminem has courted further controversy on his new album The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) with a blunt reference to Alec Baldwin and the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the ...
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.He is credited with popularizing hip-hop in Middle America and is regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. [3]
Eminem's estranged father, Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr., has died at 67 due to a heart attack. ... It's currently unknown whether Eminem ever came face-to-face with his father in more recent years.
D12 (an initialism for the Dirty Dozen) was an American hip hop collective from Detroit, Michigan.Formed in 1996, the group achieved mainstream success with its lineup of de facto leader Eminem, [3] Proof, Bizarre, Mr. Porter, Kuniva and Swifty McVay.