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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.
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 ...
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. , Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. [2] The driver, Marion "Suge" Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur died from ...
Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas hours after attending a heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Bruce Seldon. LAS VEGAS (AP) — The first arrest in the 1996 death of Tupac ...
Related: 18-year-old man confesses to killing rapper Pop Smoke in his Hollywood Hills home. ... and shot him in the back three times, according to testimony shared by the outlet. The men also ...
With other high-profile rappers such as Drakeo the Ruler, who was fatally stabbed in 2021, and Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle also fatally shot in 2019 in Los Angeles, there has been some ...
[27] [28] Retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, who worked for three years on a gang task force that included the Wallace case, alleged that the rapper was shot by Wardell "Poochie" Fouse. Fouse, a Mob Piru gang member and an associate of Knight, died on July 24, 2003, after being shot in the back while riding his motorcycle in Compton.
Rapper Julio Foolio, real name Charles Jones, was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Tampa, Fla., after a weekend spent celebrating his 26th birthday.