THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on May 02, 2013, 08:34:55 AM
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Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic "Jump," died at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose at his home, authorities said. He was 34.
"It appears it may have been a possible drug overdose," said Cpl. Kay Lester, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County police.
This, Lester said, is based on statements received at the scene as well as evidence turned up at Kelly's home in south Atlanta.
According to Lester, police were called to Kelly's home at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was transported to the south campus of the Atlanta Medical Center.
Investigator Betty Honey of the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said Kelly was pronounced dead at the hospital at around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
No official cause of death has been determined, pending an autopsy.
Kelly, known as "Mac Daddy," and Chris Smith, known as "Daddy Mac," were introduced to the music world in 1992 by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri after he discovered the pair in an Atlanta mall. The duo wore their clothes backwards as a gimmick, but they won over fans with their raps.
Their first, and by far most successful song, was "Jump." The hit, off their multiplatinum 1992 debut album "Totally Krossed Out," featured the two trading versus and rapping the refrain, the song's title. The duo had surprising maturity in their rap delivery, though the song was written by Dupri. It would become a No. 1 smash in the United States and globally, and one of the most popular of that year.
Their success led to instant fame: They toured with Michael Jackson, appeared on TV shows, and even had their own video game.
The group was never able to match the tremendous success of their first song, though they had other hits like "Warm It Up," and "Tonite's tha Night."
In 2009, after photos surfaced that showed him with bald spots on his head, there were rumors that he had cancer. But in an interview posted on YouTube by Straight from the A TV, he said he suffered from alopecia, a condition in which people lose their hair.
"My health is good, I just got alopecia, I don't have cancer, not other sort of diseases," he said.
Earlier this year, the group performed together to celebrate the anniversary of Durpri's label, So So Def.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2013/05/01/chris-kelly-kriss-kross-dies/2128291/
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Thread indirectly reminded me Milly Vanilly was once a thing
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RIP Mac Daddy
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Kris_Kross_Make_My_Video_Cover.jpg)
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Fack same age as me. I remember when this song first hit. :'(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tr8KRqyGJk
Such a poetic metaphor for life. I guess he didn't actually learn to never miss his bus again. :(
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Fack same age as me. I remember when this song first hit. :'(
i was jealous of them.
"man, kids who are famous must have the best lives ever" :lol
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Did they sleep with Quincy Jones?
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Tupac did.
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Quincy Jones Bi?
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He died of an OD, right? 34 isn't that young if you're stuffing shit in your veins, holes, and all sorts of body parts.
If you dont full under any of that* - you're still pretty young.
* Cock excluded
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Fack same age as me. I remember when this song first hit. :'(
i was jealous of them.
"man, kids who are famous must have the best lives ever" :lol
I used to dream about being on some kid's show like Barney or Seasame Street, then I'd be rolling in skrilla (prolly like $100 a week :o ) and I could buy all the videogames and baseball cards I ever wanted.
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And NEVER have to go to school! yeahhh!!!
i wanted to be on whatever shows as well. the one legit one was Video Power, though. The end game where you run through a maze and pick a billion games off the walls. Get a Neogeo system if you find a special one. that shit was nuts
:whew
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He died of an OD, right? 34 isn't that young if you're stuffing shit in your veins, holes, and all sorts of body parts.
If you dont full under any of that* - you're still pretty young.
* Cock excluded
:whew
false alarm
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Quincy Jones turned those kids out.
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I remember seeing the Jump video the first time at my grandma's house, and marveling at the backwards pants. My uncle shook his head and said "that's gay as all hell. These little niccas are giving pedos easy access to their ass with that zipper in the back."
:dead
RIP
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:lol PD
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listening to the tape of Totally Krossed Out right now and these beats are actually really fierce