Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Died of undisclosed illness [107] Steve Priest The Sweet: 72: June 4, 2020: Died of undisclosed cause, after health failure [108] Rupert Hine Record producer from Thinkman, Quantum Jump: 72: June 4, 2020: Wiltshire, England: Undisclosed cause, although he had renal cancer and arrhythmia [109] Frank Bey: 74: June 7, 2020: Glenolden, Pennsylvania ...
Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan died last month in Georgia from an accidental drug overdose, authorities said.. The artist, who burst onto the hip-hop scene more than a decade ago, was killed by ...
Taos, New Mexico, U.S. Lung cancer [125] [126] 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 [127] Hugh McDonald Redgum: 62: November 18, 2016: Australia ...
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 ...
The fatal shooting of rapper Half Ounce has ignited a familiar conversation about gun violence, rap culture and whether there’s a responsibility for labels to protect their artists.
In January 2016, Robert Paulson died at the age of 34. [12] He is survived by his ex-wife and two sons, Lion and Elijah Blue. [9] His ex-wife did not want to publicly reveal his cause of death. [9] His cause of death was reported by the L.A. County Medical-Coroner to be accidental caused by mixed drug toxicity. [13]