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The hip-hop group is in mourning after groundbreaking rapper Hurricane G handed away, it was confirmed Sunday.
“My coronary heart is hardened in the present day. Considered one of my good buddies… my oldest daughters mom handed away in the present day,” wrote EPMD’s Erick Sermon on Instagram, describing her as “a legend in her personal proper within the Hiphop group.”
Hurricane G, born Gloria Rodríguez, rose to fame within the mid-Nineteen Nineties after showing on Redman’s 1992 hit “Tonight’s da Night time.” She adopted with one other Redman music, “Dare Iz a Darkside,” in 1994 whereas collaborating with Xzibit on the observe “On the Velocity of Life” earlier than releasing her debut album, All Lady, in 1997. The artist, who was of Puerto Rican descent, rapped in each English and Spanish.
“She paved the way in which,” Sermon wrote. “She was in all of the Hiphop magazines with all the highest females on the time. She can be missed all around the globe. I can’t imagine this. Pray for us. Lovely blessings. She was a stupendous individual a beautiful mom as actual as they arrive.”
No reason for dying has been revealed however in Might, Hurricane G’s daughter, Lexus, revealed her mom had lung most cancers.
“My mother has stage 4 lung most cancers,” she wrote. “I dont know what number of of you perceive what which means however even after 30 years of life Im nonetheless making an attempt to course of it myself. I've by no means cried a lot in my life I've by no means felt so disconnected from actuality in my life.”
On Fb on Sunday evening, the producer of Hurricane G’s debut album paid tribute to the “actually humorous individual.”
“I've so many loopy tales from working with Hurricane G on her album All Lady,” Domingo Padilla wrote.
“We recorded that album in my condominium in Ozone Park Queens on a Tascam 388 and I took the entire reel machine to 78/88 studios and dumped the music to 2 inch reels…
“Gloria was a extremely type hearted, humorous individual however when she was mad keep out her manner… LOL. I noticed her make a well-known radio persona cry in a studio and once I drove Gloria dwelling we argued about why she did that and he or she saved it actual with me she mentioned ‘Domingo that bi**h don’t idiot me she is a 2 face.’”
Padilla mentioned he was “gonna miss talking to her on the cellphone and listen to her say ‘Domingo you bought that funky ass hearth for me or what motherfucker.’”
Hurricane G’s dying got here virtually instantly after unconfirmed reviews that one other hip-hop artist, “Jersey legend” rapper Tame Considered one of Artifacts fame, additionally handed away. Tame, who's a cousin of Redman, additionally discovered fame within the Nineteen Nineties however struggled to safe industrial success.