Hip-Hop Is Old But Your Favorite Rapper Is Too Young to Die
Reckoning with the mortality of music gods
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6 min readMay 7, 2021
In the span of two weeks in April, hip-hop lost DMX, Black Rob, and Shock G. Their ages were 50, 52, and 57, respectively. Fans could barely show proper respect for one fallen rapper before the next one passed. I won’t belabor the specific details of their deaths here, as the circumstances…
