Shawty Lo Dies After Car Crash.
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A very sad day presented itself the other night, Tuesday (20th September), when fans of the rapper, Shawty Lo, 40, discovered the Atlanta native known for the record smash ‘Dey Know’ (2008) passed away in a car crash.
When fans across the globe paid their respects to Shanty Lo with the hashtag #RIPShawtyLo trending on Twitter on Wednesday (21st September), the hardest blow to the passing of Lo was of course the mothers of his 11 children.
Born with the governing name of Carlos Walker, Lo was a founding member of the group, D4L. With the group, the song ‘Laffy Taffy’ shot up to no.1 on the Billboard 100 Chart in ‘06. Lo had popularised the hip-hop sub-genre, snap music, which is a derivative of both crunk music and the larger art form of Southern hip-hop in generalised in the late 90s in Bankhead, Atlanta, USA. Snap music had a mixed reception by the larger hip-hop community, which have called the genre “ignorant” and expendable.
During the mid-2000s, after ‘Laffy Taffy’, Lo eventually went solo in ‘07 he went onto produce the debut hit ‘Dey Know’ and released his first and only album in ‘08 called ‘Units in the City’ that unfortunately did not receive good reviews from critics.
A local newspaper in Atlanta had reported that the car crash, which involved Lo in a ‘white Audi’ had two women inside the car at the time of the accident. The women, Destini Carter and Deshondria Miller, had escaped with less critical injuries.
“Two women in the car were taken to a hospital,” the publication had stated.
The car went through a guardrail and hit two trees and Lo was then ejected from the vehicle and a recent report earlier today from Fulton County Medical Examiner explained the cause of death was “blunt force trauma to the head,” a full autopsy report is currently in progress.
