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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.
This alphabetical list contains 634 people whose deaths can be reliably sourced to be the result of drug overdose or acute drug intoxication. Where sources indicate drug overdose or intoxication was only suspected to be the cause of death, this will be specified in the 'notes' column.
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 ...
Drug overdose T-Model Ford: 90: July 16, 2013: Greenville, Mississippi, U.S. Respiratory failure [73] MC Daleste Brazilian rapper: 20: July 7, 2013: Paulínia, São Paulo, Brazil: Shot while performing onstage [74] Mikhail Gorsheniov Korol i Shut: 39: July 19, 2013: Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation: Heart failure due to alcoholic ...
Taos, New Mexico, U.S. Lung cancer [127] [128] Saki Kaskas Best known from his soundtracks in the Need for Speed Series: 45: November 17, 2016: Greece: Drug overdose Sharon Jones Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: 60: November 18, 2016: Cooperstown, New York, U.S. Pancreatic cancer [129] Hugh McDonald Redgum: 62: November 18, 2016: Australia ...
In 1999, Johnson along with the rap group Crime Affliates independently released the collaboration album, Crime Pays.The following year, Johnson released his debut solo album, I Represent, which peaked at No. 58 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart and led to a solo recording deal with Universal Records for his sophomore album, Strictly 4 Da Streets: Sex, Drugs and Violence Vol.1; however ...
Alexis Alijai Lynch (February 19, 1998 – January 1, 2020), better known by her stage name Lexii Alijai, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Alijai was part of the Twin Cities hip hop scene. She released Growing Pains—her only full-length, studio album—in 2017. Alijai was a rising star ...
In late 2008, Chinx was released from prison and through his affiliation with the now deceased Bundles, he met Max B. The following year, Max B introduced Chinx to fellow New York rapper French Montana, who was still relatively unknown at the time. Together, Chinx and Montana formed the hip hop group, Coke Boys. [4]