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Primarily a Black disease
Rap legend Prodigy dead at 42 from a disease America hasn’t bothered trying to cure
Prodigy’s life was about so much more than sickle cell anemia. His death may have been preventable
Albert Johnson — better known as Prodigy, the driving force behind titanic rap duo Mobb Deep — is dead at 42, the hip-hop legend’s publicist announced Tuesday.
Prodigy spent his last days in a Las Vegas hospital battling complications from the sickle cell anemia he had lived with from birth. “The exact causes of death have yet to be determined,” his publicist’s statement said ...
https://thinkprogress.org/prodigy-dead-from-sickle-cell-complications-at-42-81cbba4eb3b0
Mobb Deep’s Prodigy (right) and Havoc (left) on stage at a 2015 show in Italy. CREDIT: Flickr user Alo B
Alan Pyke
Deputy Economic Policy Editor, ThinkProgress. Poverty, criminal-justice profiteering, police violence, & robber barons. Tips: apyke@americanprogress.org
Jun 20
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Primarily a Black disease
Rap legend Prodigy dead at 42 from a disease America hasn’t bothered trying to cure
Prodigy’s life was about so much more than sickle cell anemia. His death may have been preventable
Albert Johnson — better known as Prodigy, the driving force behind titanic rap duo Mobb Deep — is dead at 42, the hip-hop legend’s publicist announced Tuesday.
Prodigy spent his last days in a Las Vegas hospital battling complications from the sickle cell anemia he had lived with from birth. “The exact causes of death have yet to be determined,” his publicist’s statement said ...
https://thinkprogress.org/prodigy-dead-from-sickle-cell-complications-at-42-81cbba4eb3b0
Mobb Deep’s Prodigy (right) and Havoc (left) on stage at a 2015 show in Italy. CREDIT: Flickr user Alo B
Alan Pyke
Deputy Economic Policy Editor, ThinkProgress. Poverty, criminal-justice profiteering, police violence, & robber barons. Tips: apyke@americanprogress.org
Jun 20
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