Younger Capone, recognized for songs “What It Iz,” “Lights, Digicam, Motion,” “Dope Boy Style” and extra, has died at 35. The rapper’s demise was confirmed useless by his publicist, Aleesha Carter, on Wednesday (Aug. 16) by way of Instagram.
“That is with a heavy heavy coronary heart that I’m even posting this. We made magic once we strategically put out initiatives, at all times,” she wrote, sharing a sequence of movies from Capone’s profession. “‘Younger Capone, aka Dopeboy Ra, aka Rara, was certainly one of my first Hip Hop/ Rap shoppers, and I can’t consider the information I simply acquired of his sudden passing! A buddy…a shopper and simply large in East Atlanta. This isn’t the best publish in any respect. Relaxation straightforward, RIP.”
The information comes after the rapper — a protegé of Jermaine Dupri — was reported lacking, and was final seen in Chicago. No explanation for demise was shared in Carter’s assertion.
After information broke of Younger Capone’s demise, Dupri shared an image of the rapper on Instagram and captioned it with 4 dove emojis, tagging the late artist’s Instagram account. He additionally soundtracked the publish with the rapper’s Daz Dillinger collab “I’m Sizzling.”
Capone, actual title Rodriguez Smith, earned a reputation for himself in East Atlanta through the mid 2000s within the underground hip-hop scene, working with Daz Dillinger and Dupri on materials earlier than getting signed to Dupri’s So So Def document label. After his signing, he launched 2006’s “Lights, Digicam, Motion.”
As Younger Capone, he launched two mixtapes: 2010’s Look Who’s Again and 2011’s Paper and Politics. Beneath Dopeboy Ra, he collaborated with T.I.’s Hustle Gang collective on its 2017 album We Need Smoke. Capone’s closing launch, SlumMade 2.0, was launched in December.
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