2024 has been full of hip-hop highlights. Whereas the tradition experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has additionally been shaken a number of instances because of the deaths of members of the hip-hop neighborhood. In memoriam, XXL displays on the lives of these we have misplaced thus far 12 months.
Rappers Who Handed Away in 2024
Chino XL and DJ Polo each handed away in July on the ages of fifty and 63, respectively, of their properties. Again in June, former 1017 rapper Enchanting tragically died on the age of 26. The up-and-coming Texas artist was admitted to the ICU on June 10 with an undisclosed medical subject and succumbed the next day. After her loss of life, condolences poured in from the hip-hop neighborhood, together with Coi Leray, Yella Beezy and her former label head Gucci Mane who wrote on Instagram, “So unhappy to must say R.I.P to such an important younger woman a real star we gone all miss you Chant.” Her loss of life was later dominated to be brought on by an unintended drug overdose.
Although not a rapper, DJ Mister Cee was an integral member of the hip-hop neighborhood as one of many sport’s most revered document spinners. Shockingly, the previous Sizzling 97 mainstay handed on the age of 57 on April 10 as the results of diabetes-related coronary artery and kidney illness. Wealthy Homie Quan’s loss of life in September on the age of 34 additionally shocked the hip-hop world. It was later confirmed he too died from a drug overdose.
DJ Clark Kent’s loss of life in October additionally shocked the hip-hop neighborhood. The beloved document spinner and DJ handed away following a multi-year battle with colon most cancers.
See an inventory of rappers and different hip-hop artists we misplaced in 2024 beneath.
