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Houston, Texas rapper and activist Obe Noir, real name Xavier Roberson, was killed in a shooting on Monday at age 31 according to local police.
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.
Rapper and record producer: 39: August 15, 2024: Houston, Texas, US: Pulmonary embolism [185] Joe Chambers The Chambers Brothers: 81: August 15, 2024: Undisclosed [186] Bobby Hicks Bluegrass fiddler: 91: August 16, 2024: Complications of heart disease [187] Luther Kent Blues singer: 76: August 16, 2024: Undisclosed [188] Johnny "Dandy ...
Milton Powell, a Houston rapper who performed under the name Big Pokey and is credited with elevating the city's hip-hop scene, died after collapsing during a show in Texas, a local official said ...
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Signed to the label Rap-A-Lot Records, her strident, sexually explicit album prefigured the image and sound of later female rappers such as Lil' Kim, [1] [2] with music journalist Roni Sarig mentioning Choice in Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing as one of the U.S. south's underground kings and queens of ...
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On November 5, 2021, a fatal crowd crush occurred during the Astroworld Festival, an annual musical event hosted by American rapper Travis Scott at NRG Park in Houston, Texas. Eight people were pronounced dead on the day of the incident, and two more died in the hospital in the following days.