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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 is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2021.
List of 2021 deaths in popular music + 2021 deaths in the United States (January–June) 2021 deaths in the United States (July–December) 0–9. Deaths in May 2021;
There’s a bittersweetness in celebrating 50 years of hip-hop when many artists don’t even make it to 50.
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 ...
[5] [6] Cocaine and various opiates were subsequently mass-produced and sold openly and legally in the Western world, resulting in widespread misuse and addiction. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Drug use and addiction also increased significantly following the invention of the hypodermic syringe in 1853, [ 9 ] with overdose being a leading cause of death among ...
OPINION: Hip-hop's many deaths are a byproduct of problems that all of us in the Black community face The post Why are so many rappers dying? appeared first on TheGrio.
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 ...