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Black Rob performs onstage during the Puff Daddy and The Family Bad Boy Reunion Tour in 2016. The Whoa! rapper died Saturday at age 52. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Live Nation
Robert Ross, the rapper known as Black Rob, who scored hits like Whoa! and Can I Live for Bad Boy Records in the early 2000s, died Saturday, April 17, at the age of 52.
Ross died at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner s office. His cause of death is still pending.
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Black Thought, Fuel
Black Thought, American Heartbreak
You might be most familiar with Tariq Trotter also known as Black Thought – as the lead MC and co-founder of The Roots, the Philadelphia hip-hop group he and drummer Questlove formed in the late 80s. And while he s never been an overly flashy frontman, his freestyle rap skills are the stuff of legend. On his latest solo album,
Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Abel, Black Thought weaves dense, complex rhymes that range from the personal to the political.
In this session, he joins me to talk about that new album and about the journey he s gone on with The Roots. He also gets into something that might surprise you, considering the force and fearlessness of his presence: his struggles with anxiety.