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Musician murder victims
This is a list of notable rappers and
hip hop musicians murdered since 1987.
Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that
murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of age. Hip hop artists have a higher rate of homicide than artists of any other genre of music, ranging from five to 32 times higher.
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Some reasons cited for the high homicide rate include poor background of many artists, criminal gang activity, drug use, and inadequate
pastoral care among artists and record labels.
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[5] In 2020,
XXL wrote that of 77 rapper deaths they examined, more than 40 remain unsolved, including the 1996
murder of Tupac Shakur , the 1997
murder of the Notorious B.I.G. , and the 1999 murder of
Big L .
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List
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