"But it's not the music itself, it's the environment. and Big L, for example, are all among the unsolved cases, despite each of them occurring more than a decade ago. And it's led to insinuations and backlash against a segment of music that is still growing in influence. "In some respects, rap music and violence seem to go hand in hand," La Rock's manager Scotty Morris told The New York Times almost 30 years ago following his client's murder. ![]() It's particularly jarring when considering how high-profile some of these cases are the murders of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G. ![]() stands at 54.4 percent, according to stats for 2020 released by Statista, a market and consumer data firm.Ĭlearly, there's a disconnect somewhere between the national murder "clearance rate" and the one that exists when a hip-hop artist is involved. ![]() To put that number in perspective, the clearance rate for murder in the U.S. Of those murders, a little more than a handful have been solved, and others are still under investigation, which means there are more than 50 rappers’ lives that have ended before their time whose murders have never been solved by the police. ![]() In the 35 years between Scott La Rock's shooting death in the Bronx in 1987 and Takeoff's murder in 2022-one of the most recent cases of a hip-hop murder-we've documented 91 rappers who have been killed, about two per year and sometimes more.
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