2024 has been full of hip-hop highlights. Whereas the tradition experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has additionally been shaken a number of occasions as a result of deaths of members of the hip-hop group. In memoriam, XXL displays on the lives of these we have misplaced this yr.
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 challenge and succumbed the next day. After her loss of life, condolences poured in from the hip-hop group, together with Coi Leray, Yella Beezy and her former label head Gucci Mane who wrote on Instagram, “So unhappy to need to say R.I.P to such an awesome younger girl a real star we gone all miss you Chant.” Her loss of life was later dominated to be brought on by an unintentional drug overdose.
Although not a rapper, DJ Mister Cee was an integral member of the hip-hop group as one of many recreation’s most revered report 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 group. The beloved report spinner and DJ handed away following a multi-year battle with colon most cancers. In December, OG Maco died after being hospitalized with a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound.
See an inventory of rappers and different hip-hop artists we misplaced in 2024 under.