Tame One, the all-around hip-hop great, rap legend, graffiti artist and hometown hero from Newark’s Artifacts & Boom Skwad, has died at 52.
Fans from New Jersey and all corners of hip-hop and the music world remembered the rapper as word of his death spread Sunday night.
Brown’s mother announced the death of her son, also known as Tamer Dizzle, in a Facebook post.
“I can‘t express this any other way,” Darlene Brown Harris said in the post. “My son, Rahem Brown, Tamer Dizzle, is dead.”
“The medical examiner says the 6 pharmaceutical drugs that Trinitas hospital prescribed to him last Friday, combined with the weed he smoked over this weekend...his heart simply gave out,” she said. “I will not be responding to all the posts for a bit, but the hardest words I will ever post or say is, my son, my heart, is dead.”
Tame One was half of the lyrical heft of the Artifacts alongside El Da Sensei.
As a solo artist, Tame One released 5 albums starting with “When Rappers Attack” (2003) as well as mixtapes & EPs. He also joined hip-hop supergroup the Weathermen with El-P (Run the Jewels), Aesop Rock, Camu Tao, appearing on 2003 mixtape “The Conspiracy.”
As one half of another duo, Leak Bros, Tame One released the 2004 album “Waterworld” with Cage.
Tame One was also cousin to veteran rapper Redman, who called him an important early influence.
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Source: NJ.Com
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