Death And Hip-Hop: A Sad End To 2013
It was the morning of Christmas Eve, 2012, when news slowly began spreading across the Internet that Capital STEEZ, promising up-and-coming rapper and first lieutenant for Brooklyn's Joey Bada$$-led Pro Era crew, was dead. It was shocking, jarring—another young rapper dead, this one to a reported suicide—but, unfortunately, not new to a world that has lost too many for a genre of music too young.