Dove Shack member and West Coast rap pioneer C-Knight has handed away on the age of 52 after being taken off of life help.
TMZ revealed the unhappy information in a report on Tuesday (November 7), which was later confirmed in a publish by C-Knight’s Dove Shack groupmate Bo Roc.
As beforehand reported, the rapper (actual title Arnez Blount) was hospitalized on October 18 as a result of issues from diabetes. While receiving remedy, he reportedly suffered a stroke that stopped his coronary heart. He was subsequently resuscitated and positioned on life help.
C-Knight’s father beforehand advised TMZ their household was optimistically ready on the outcomes of an important MRI to hopefully see any notable mind exercise, nevertheless it seems issues took a flip for the more serious.
Taking to Instagram following information of C-Knight’s loss of life, Bo Roc wrote: “This is like [a] fucking nightmare I swear this shit hurt different and I don’t want to talk about shit to nobody so please just let me be and pray for us… On my soul I love you bro and I already don’t know what the fuck to do wit u being gone.”
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Dove Shack made their debut on Warren G‘s 1994 album Regulate… G Funk Era. The following year, the group had their biggest hit, “Summertime in the LBC.” The track, which appeared both on their debut album This Is the Shack album and the soundtrack to The Show, made it to No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of November 4, 1995.
The group reunited for a project in 2006. C-Knight has one solo album, 2001’s Knight Time.
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The group additionally helped Snoop Dogg get his begin. In a 2022 interview with The 85 South Comedy Show, the West Coast legend defined that through the early days of his profession he would borrow a typewriter from 2Scoops of The Dove Shack.
“Them the little homies,” Snoop stated of the trio. “2Scoops that was in the group, when I first started writing raps I used to use that n-gga typewriter… I was writing on paper cuz and I would lose my shit and this n-gga typewriter was organized. This n-gga had paper organized and shit so I was like, ‘I’m just gonna type my shit up’ and I used to type like 65 words a minute, n-gga.”
He continued: “It was a skill I took up at a little white junior high school I went to. They gave a n-gga typing classes and I took it. I was one of them students that I took a wood class, a metal class, I took typing, I took home economics. I took classes that was like different.”
HipHopDX sends its condolences to C-Knight’s household and buddies.
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