C-Knight, a founding member of Lengthy Seaside G-funk rap crew Dove Shack, has died at age 52. The information was confirmed by TMZ on Tuesday (Nov. 7), when a member of the rapper’s household reportedly instructed the gossip web site that the MC born Arnez Blount had died that day after being taken off life assist a number of weeks after struggling a stroke; at press time Billboard couldn’t independently verify the main points of Knight’s dying.
The location earlier reported that Knight’s father mentioned his son was hospitalized on October 18 after his blood sugar drastically spiked as a result of diabetes. The rapper reportedly subsequently suffered a stroke and went into cardiac arrest whereas getting dialysis within the hospital, was resuscitated and placed on life assist in an unresponsive state that he by no means re-emerged from.
Knight was finest recognized for his clean circulation as a part of the Lengthy Seaside, CA crew — which additionally featured rappers B-Roc and 2Scoops — whose affiliation with g-funk icon Warren G. manifested on the music “This Is the Shack” on G’s 1994 traditional debut album Regulate… G Funk Period album; the music additionally served as Dove Shack’s public debut.
In 1995, the trio launched their full-length debut, additionally titled This Is The Shack, on G-Funk Leisure/Def Jam Recordings; the album peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The gathering spawned one charting single, the slow-rolling “Summertime within the LBC,” which hit No. 54 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart after being featured within the 1995 hip-hop doc The Present. Along with the Warren G-produced “This Is the Shack,” the group’s debut featured two songs produced by Run-DMC’s Jam Grasp Jay (“Bomb Drop,” “East Facet Get together”).
C-Knight launched the solo album Knight Time in 2001 and Dove Shack issued their second, and ultimate, album, Actuality Has Obtained Me Tied Up, in 2006.
B-Roc paid tribute to his fallen comrade in an Instagram publish that includes an image of the 2 and the message, “That is like f–king nightmare I swear this s–t damage completely different and I don’t need to discuss s–t to no person so please simply let me be and pray for us… On my soul I really like you bro and I already don’t know what the f–okay to do wit u being gone.”
Watch the “Summertime within the LBC” video beneath.
