Trina's 19-year-old brother Wilbrent Bain Jr., aka Goonkie, was reportedly shot this weekend, and has since apparently died. Trina's management is said to have issued a statement about the shooting via her Myspace page, however no record of this currently exists. Click the link to learn more.
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Freeband Double D, a music executive who's worked with Future and Young Scooter, was reportedly gunned down on April 11 while driving on Atlanta's Interstate 20.
According to GlobalGrind.com, witnesses saw numerous shots being fired from a white S
20-year-old Kenneth Casilla, aka Rich Mafia, is the latest Miami rapper to fall victim to gun violence. Casilla was shot to death last week in an apartment complex parking lot in Little Haiti.
Wiz Khalifa is reportedly suing a conc
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Shain Gandee, star of MTV reality show Buckwild, was found dead earlier today.
According to CBS News, authorities had been searching for Gandee, his uncle and another unidentified man since early Sunday morning. A crashed vehicle containing the three men was was found near Gandee's home in Sissonville, W.V.
The 21-year-old was o
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Motown songwriter Deke Richards, who penned hits like the Jackson 5's "ABC" and "I Want You Back" with production team the Corporation, has died of esophageal cancer. He was 68.
Today is also the 18th anniversary of Eazy-E's death. Check out a documentary that just dropped about his life, and pay respect
Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.
Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers died about 6 a.m. in South
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No Limit rapper Mr. Magic (real name Awood Johnson) was reportedly killed in a car accident in Hattiesburg, Miss. on Friday, March 1. He was 37 years old.
According to the Times-Picayune, the
Otis "Damon" Harris, of the venerable Motown group The Temptations has died. He was 62-years-old.
According to his daughter Erica Harris Outlaw, the singer was suffering with prostate cancer for the last 14 years, but recently he'd really been struggling. He officially passed away on Feb. 18 at Joseph Richey Hospice in Baltimore, MD.
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A wild shootout took place on the Las Vegas strip yesterday (Feb. 21), which left tourists aghast, and at least three dead. Killed in the gunfight was Bay Area rapper Kenny Clutch, who was shot in his Maserati and crashed into a taxi, which subsequently exploded
Bronx rapper Tim Dog died of a seizure earlier today, after a lengthy battle with diabetes. He was 46.
The Kool Keith affiliated MC, born Timothy Blair, rose to fame after his West Coast diss record "Fuck Compton," which appeared on his celebrated, contentious 1991 debut LP, Penicillin on Wax.
Dog went on to appear on several songs with Kool Keith's Ultrama