Jon's a Handsome Devil, BUT --

Here's a rapper who actually did a song about them:


Prodigy died last weekend:

TMZ: (Prodigy's) publicist says he was hospitalized "a few days ago in (Las) Vegas (USA) after a Mobb Deep performance..." (He) had to be pulled out of a fan meet-and-greet event...

Last weekend also marked the release of a movie about the late rapper Tupac Shakur, who also took them on:



A few days later, on June 21, the summer solstice took place -- blood sacrifice accomplished?

(Prodigy's) publicist says..."As most of his fans know, Prodigy (has) battled the disease...sickle cell anemia...since birth."

...It appears his sickle cell was exacerbated by extreme desert temps...reportedly as hot as 110F (43C) during the concert. The disease made him prone to dehydration and weakened his immune system...

Hmm, well, then maybe the sun was their murder weapon -- it would certainly dovetail into the summer solstice!

Multiple sources tell us he...choked on an egg...in the hospital...(O)fficials are trying to find out if it was the choking or the sickle cell symptoms he'd been battling for days.

So Prodigy's death could have been caused by being too weak to swallow, or even a food allergy? What a letdown -- that would mean that his death was merely accidental!

A friend and business associate of teenybopper hiphopper Drake has been shot to death.


Until now, Drake has managed to maneuver between his cuddly mainstream appeal and his shadowy "street level" support system:

While he has expressed his condolences, acted as a pallbearer, and gotten a memorial tattoo, Drake has been less than vigorous about appealing to the public for help in finding the perpetrators. Maybe it really is street ethics; maybe it's that it would be very bad for Drake business-wise to have the police scrutinizing his "shadows" too closely. On the other hand, maybe his friend's death is simply:



Meanwhile, Cardi B, whose #1 single has sent her up the lady hiphop stripper pole of success to join Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Nicky Minaj, Iggy Azalea and White Chyna, is looking at her situation more realistically:

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