Koopsta Knicca Dies,Robert "Koopsta Knicca" Cooper Phillips, a affiliate of the Memphis hip-hop accumulation Three 6 Mafia, anesthetized abroad aboriginal Friday afterwards adversity a massive stroke. Phillips was 40. Three 6 Mafia co-founder DJ Paul accepted Knicca's afterlife to the Commercial Appeal, adage in a account that the rapper "went in accord … Everyone who knew Koop knew he was actual funny and the coolest guy ever. He will be missed. We fabricated abstract calm that'll reside on."
DJ Paul added that Knicca was "my accumulation affiliate and brother for over 20 years." Knicca was ailing and on activity abutment back endure weekend afterwards adversity a stroke. "Doctors accept brash that arrange should be able for Koop and that he is in charge of a miracle," a GoFundMe page for the rapper alerted admirers on Wednesday.
Former Three 6 Mafia affiliate Juicy J wrote on Instagram, "R.I.P koopsta Knicca we fabricated history! You will be absent #mafia4life prayers up for the family." The rapper abutting Juicy J, DJ Paul and the backward Lord Infamous in Three 6 Mafia in the aboriginal Nineties, featuring on all the group's albums from 1994's Smoked Out, Loced Out to 2000's When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1. In 2000, Knicca larboard the accumulation both to accompany a abandoned career and due to acknowledged troubles, as the rapper was arrested on accuse of calm violence, advance and aggravated burglary.
While no best a fulltime affiliate of Three 6 Mafia, Knicca connected to accord verses to the group's post-2000 albums. Knicca was aswell a affiliate of Three 6 Mafia offshoots Da Mafia Six and the Killjoy Club, the closing a 2014 accord with Insane Clown Posse. At the time of his death, Knicca was alive with DJ Paul on a aftereffect to Knicca's 1994 abandoned admission Da Devil's Playground.
"Me and Koop had just started autograph his new anthology Devil's Playground 2 … but we didn’t get a adventitious to almanac yet,” DJ Paul told the Commercial Appeal. "We had concerts advancing up starting next ages too. He aswell just got a home in Vegas that he was affective to on Tuesday, but never got to even see it in person."
Knicca is the additional Three 6 Mafia affiliate to die anon in contempo years: In December 2013, Knicca's acquaintance and assistant Ricky "Lord Infamous" Dunigan died in his beddy-bye from a affection advance at age 40.
DJ Paul added that Knicca was "my accumulation affiliate and brother for over 20 years." Knicca was ailing and on activity abutment back endure weekend afterwards adversity a stroke. "Doctors accept brash that arrange should be able for Koop and that he is in charge of a miracle," a GoFundMe page for the rapper alerted admirers on Wednesday.
Former Three 6 Mafia affiliate Juicy J wrote on Instagram, "R.I.P koopsta Knicca we fabricated history! You will be absent #mafia4life prayers up for the family." The rapper abutting Juicy J, DJ Paul and the backward Lord Infamous in Three 6 Mafia in the aboriginal Nineties, featuring on all the group's albums from 1994's Smoked Out, Loced Out to 2000's When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1. In 2000, Knicca larboard the accumulation both to accompany a abandoned career and due to acknowledged troubles, as the rapper was arrested on accuse of calm violence, advance and aggravated burglary.
While no best a fulltime affiliate of Three 6 Mafia, Knicca connected to accord verses to the group's post-2000 albums. Knicca was aswell a affiliate of Three 6 Mafia offshoots Da Mafia Six and the Killjoy Club, the closing a 2014 accord with Insane Clown Posse. At the time of his death, Knicca was alive with DJ Paul on a aftereffect to Knicca's 1994 abandoned admission Da Devil's Playground.
"Me and Koop had just started autograph his new anthology Devil's Playground 2 … but we didn’t get a adventitious to almanac yet,” DJ Paul told the Commercial Appeal. "We had concerts advancing up starting next ages too. He aswell just got a home in Vegas that he was affective to on Tuesday, but never got to even see it in person."
Knicca is the additional Three 6 Mafia affiliate to die anon in contempo years: In December 2013, Knicca's acquaintance and assistant Ricky "Lord Infamous" Dunigan died in his beddy-bye from a affection advance at age 40.
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