{"id":229924,"date":"2021-04-18T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-rob-dead-at-52\/"},"modified":"2021-04-18T21:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:40:25","slug":"black-rob-dead-at-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-rob-dead-at-52\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black Rob Dead at 52"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Black Rob Dead at 52<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Robert Ross, the rap artist known as Black Rob<\/a>, died yesterday (April 17) at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reports. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, as Ross\u2019 friend Mark Curry told the Times<\/em>. He added that Ross was dealing with a number of health issues prior to his death, including lupus, kidney failure, diabetes, and multiple strokes. Ross was 52 years old.<\/p>\n

The former Bad Boy<\/a> signee best known for his 2000 song \u201cWhoa\u201d recently shared a video shot during a hospital stay, in which he paid tribute to the late DMX. At the time of his death, a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his medical expenses had yet to reach its goal.<\/p>\n

Ross began rapp<\/a>ing when he was a child and formed his first group the Schizophrenics, when he was in his early 20s. He underwent a brief jail stint in the late \u201980s before falling in with Bad Boy Records the following decade. Though his star rose as he contributed verses to a number of the label\u2019s other artists in the \u201990s, Ross wouldn\u2019t get his time in the spotlight until 2000, when his debut Life Story<\/em> was finally released.<\/p>\n

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Life Story<\/em> and its hit single \u201cWhoa!\u201d would help resuscitate Bad Boy for a brief period, and Ross would later appear on the hit P. Diddy single \u201cBad Boys for Life\u201d in 2001. Life Story<\/em> hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and would go on to be certified platinum, though subsequent Black Rob releases would fail to chart as highly. He later signed to Duck Down for his third album Game<\/a> Tested, Streets Approved<\/em> in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Ross suffered a stroke prior to the release of his fourth and final album Genuine Article<\/em> in 2015.<\/p>\n

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