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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.
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 ...
Takeoff performs onstage in Atlanta on Oct. 8, 2022. He was killed less than a month later. Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesAdd the name of Takeoff, a member of the popular rap trio Migos, to the ever ...
The fatal shooting of rapper Half Ounce has ignited a familiar conversation about gun violence, rap culture and ... have died by gun violence, with at least one rapper being fatally shot every ...
There’s a bittersweetness in celebrating 50 years of hip-hop when many artists don’t even make it to 50.
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;
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025