Hip-Hop Artists We’ve Lost in 2024

2024 has been stuffed with hip-hop highlights. Whereas the tradition experiences celebratory moments, the rap world has additionally been shaken a number of instances as a result of deaths of members of the hip-hop neighborhood. In memoriam, XXL displays on the lives of these we have misplaced this 12 months.

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 subject and succumbed the next day. After her dying, condolences poured in from the hip-hop neighborhood, together with Coi Leray, Yella Beezy and her former label head Gucci Mane who wrote on Instagram, “So unhappy to should say R.I.P to such an awesome younger woman a real star we gone all miss you Chant.” Her dying 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 neighborhood as one of many recreation’s most revered file spinners. Shockingly, the previous Scorching 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 dying 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 dying in October additionally shocked the hip-hop neighborhood. The beloved file 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 a listing of rappers and different hip-hop artists we misplaced in 2024 beneath.