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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. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2020, XXL wrote that of 77 rapper deaths they examined, more than 40 remain unsolved, including the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur , the 1997 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Her mentor, Yams, died in 2015 of an accidental drug overdose. [12] Her mother, Wendy Payne, died in 2017. In an interview with Pitchfork Media in January 2018, [ 13 ] she described how the pressures of the music industry had played a part in her addiction: 'I felt that I hadn’t gone through enough terrible stuff to deserve to have this as a ...
Music writer Steve Huey wrote: "it was difficult for observers to tell whether Ol' Dirty Bastard's wildly erratic behavior was the result of serious drug problems or genuine mental instability." [ 3 ] According to The Atlantic contributing editor and music biographer James Parker, Jones had been diagnosed with schizophrenia around 2003.
Alijai died at the Loews Minneapolis Hotel on January 1, 2020, at the age of 21. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled that the manner of death was an accidental drug overdose . [ 18 ] [ 19 ] A toxicology report revealed the cause as mixed toxicity from fentanyl and ethanol .
Lionel Du Fon Pickens (December 4, 1983 – May 17, 2015), [2] better known by his stage name Chinx (formerly Chinx Drugz), was an American rapper.He was a member of The Rockaway Riot Squad alongside fellow slain rapper Stack Bundles.