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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.
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 ...
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In February, New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemned drill rap after two artists, Jayquan McKenley and Tahjay Dobson, who was known as Tdott Woo, were shot dead in Brooklyn.
Charles Andrew Jones II [4] (June 21, 1998 – June 23, 2024), known professionally as Foolio or Julio Foolio, was an American rapper from Jacksonville, Florida.He was associated with the city's rap scene and was involved in high-profile feuds with other rappers. [5]
Lamar Scott, son of Dillian Whyte’s promoter, is the latest in a string of drill rappers to lose their lives in London.
The drama between the two rappers can be traced back to the release of 50 Cent’s “The Bomb,” which seemingly points to Diddy having knowledge about the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
While rappers in the underground scene continued to release horrorcore music, including Big L, [16] Insane Poetry, [17] and Insane Clown Posse, [9] the mid-1990s brought an attempted mainstream crossover of the genre. [9] According to the book Icons of Hip Hop, horrorcore gained mainstream prominence in 1994 with the release of Flatlinerz' U.S.A.