Still reeling. This tragedy had me shook. I told my buds too, I wasn’t even a fan of Mac Miller’s music like that. To me, his authenticity, coolness, and overall positive vibe is what I liked most about him even more than the music.
I’ve been gravitating to this collab a lot lately — an uplifting one he dropped with Anderson .Paak which is the perfect vibe for sunny LA.
R.I.P. 🙏
This afternoon, reports say that Philadelphia 76er legend Darryl Dawkins, a.k.a. Chocolate Thunder, has passed away. He was only 58 and there was no cause of death cited. (UPDATE: Dawkins family has said it was because of a heart attack.)
The news shakes NBA fans of many generations because Dawkins was one of the game’s most colorful personalities and most powerful dunkers.
Some of my earliest memories becoming a fan of the game actually involved Dawkins. I was too young to ever see him play, but his shattering backboards were always in the highlight videos on VHS I would run back again and again. I also loved that he nicknamed all his dunks and even hailed from “Planet Lovetron”. And by many accounts too, he was a nice and generous man, especially with the youth in his retirement. R.I.P. Chocolate Thunder.
Watch some of those said dunks and shattered backboards in his Top 20 Dunk countdown below.
Dawkins named the first backboard-breaking dunk “The Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam, Glass-Breaker-I-Am-Jam.”[3]
He named other dunks as well: the Rim Wrecker, the Go-Rilla, the Look Out Below, the In-Your-Face Disgrace, the Cover Your Head, the Yo-Mama, the Spine-Chiller Supreme, and the Greyhound Special (for the rare occasions when he went coast to coast). The 76ers also kept a separate column on the stat sheet for Dawkins’s self-created nicknames: “Sir Slam”, “Dr. Dunkenstein”, and “Chocolate Thunder.”
via Wikipedia
Hip Hop lost another one today. Reports this morning confirm the passing of Sean Price. He was 43. Details remain uncovered about how Price passed, except that it was in his sleep late last night.
“It is with beyond a heavy heart that Duck Down Music is sadly confirming that Sean Price passed away early this morning in his Brooklyn apartment, Saturday, August 8th, 2015,” reads a statement from his reps. “The cause of death is currently unknown, but it was reported that he died in his sleep. He’s survived by his wife, and his three children.
The hip hop community is already pouring out some heartfelt condolences. We of course do the same and thank Sean Price, or as you may have heard him as Ruck or 0.5 of Heltah Skeltah, for his many contributions to the culture.
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(A lot of people are remembering Sean Price’s humor this morning. Here’s an example. This is hilarious.)
Damn. Some of Sean Price’s last tweets.
Another sad blow for the world of hip hop as Hussein Fatal, longtime 2Pac collaborator and member of The Outlawz, has passed away in a car accident. The death was confirmed by fellow Outlawz members and on Twitter below.
You may not know you know Hussein Fatal, but if you’ve ever played “Hit ‘Em Up”, “Troublesome”, “Still I Rise”, or “All About U”, you definitely have heard his verses. That’s just a sampling of his features with ‘Pac, let alone his solo material too (here’s the full list.) This, on top of the news I just learned even earlier today, that GBE’s Capo was gunned down here in Chicago, and it’s just an unfortunate day for the rap community. R.I.P.
(Hussein Fatal on the second verse.)
Rest in Paradise our brother Hussein Fatal he passed away in a car accident. Pray for his family & kids at this time! pic.twitter.com/dK2GS1N0ns
— THE OUTLAWZ (@TheOutlawz) July 12, 2015
The news late tonight/early this morning is definitely unfortunate as blues legend B.B. King has passed away at age 89. Of the many facts I’ve seen on the Twitterverse today, this one really caught my attention. R.I.P.
B.B. King averaged 330 shows a year for four decades. He has died, aged 89 http://t.co/RJk6DKLMoV pic.twitter.com/mm8bXL4lPZ
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 15, 2015
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