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| Hurricane G passed away from lung cancer. |
Rapper Hurricane G has passed away at the age of 52. No official release of her cause of death but her daughter revealed that she had stage IV cancer.
Many are pouring out grievances to the rapper who was No. 1.
She was born Gloria Rodriguez. She leaves behind a daughter, Lexus whom she had with rapper/producer Erick Sermon, a member of EPMD.
“My heart is hardened today. One of my good friends… my oldest daughters mother passed away today,” wrote EPMD’s Erick Sermon on Instagram, describing her as “a legend in her own right in the Hiphop community.”
Hurricane G rose to fame in the mid-1990s after appearing on Redman’s 1992 hit “Tonight’s da Night.” She followed with another Redman song, “Dare Iz a Darkside,” in 1994 while collaborating with Xzibit on the track “At the Speed of Life” before releasing her debut album, All Woman, in 1997. The artist, who was of Puerto Rican descent, rapped in both English and Spanish.
“She paved the way,” Sermon wrote. “She was in all the Hiphop magazines with all the top females at the time. She will be missed all around the world. I can’t believe this. Pray for us. Beautiful blessings. She was a beautiful person a wonderful mother as real as they come.”
Rodríguez was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1970. She was the Hit Squad's first female member, and made guest appearances on albums. She also appeared on Puff Daddy's track "P.E. 2000".
On Facebook on Sunday night, the producer of Hurricane G’s debut album paid tribute to the “really funny person.”
“I have so many crazy stories from working with Hurricane G on her album All Woman,” Domingo Padilla wrote.
“We recorded that album in my apartment in Ozone Park Queens on a Tascam 388 and I took the whole reel machine to 78/88 studios and dumped the music to 2 inch reels…
“Gloria was a really kind hearted, funny person but when she was mad stay out her way… LOL. I saw her make a famous radio personality cry in a studio and when I drove Gloria home we argued about why she did that and she kept it real with me she said ‘Domingo that bi**h don’t fool me she is a 2 face.’”
Padilla said he was “gonna miss speaking to her on the phone and hear her say ‘Domingo you got that funky ass fire for me or what motherfucker.’”
Hurricane G’s death came almost immediately after unconfirmed reports that another hip-hop artist, “Jersey legend” rapper Tame One of Artifacts fame, also passed away.
Tame, who is a cousin of Redman, also found fame in the 1990s but struggled to secure commercial success.
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