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.
KayO Redd, who was best known as Waka Flocka Flame’s younger brother, died in Atlanta yesterday.
There have been conflicting reports by Redd’s closest colleagues about whether it was a murder or suicide. The cause of death has not been revealed yet, but his family members Debra Antney and Waka Flocka Flame responded on Twitter. “I just lo...