Rapper Lil Snupe is dead, according to multiple sources. The 18-year-old was shot, reportedly over a $100 dice game.
Recently signed to Meek Mill's Dream Chaser's label, the promising young rapper died Thursday morning after being shot. His manager, DJ Smalls, confirmed the news on Twitter. "The call I got this morning is un real RIP 2 my Lil n----a lilsnupe," he said. Snupe had just been signed to Dream Chasers last year, after Meek Mill heard his mixtape for just 20 minutes. He described what happened to MTV News in February: "He was in a van, they was gonna pull off. Then I went and knocked on the van, on the window. And they let the window down, grabbed the mixtape and it was like 10 minutes later, 20 minutes later they called me." "He was spittin' so much pain, he's from the south with a flow like an east coast guy," Meek told MTV, "Like with that bounce flow, all over the place, he really can spit, and he was talking that talk that I can really relate to. I seen potential in him."
Before Snupe was shot, Meek Mill sent out a frantic tweet asking for anyone to tell Lil Snupe to contact him. "tell lil snupe hit me up right now!!!" he tweeted.
Snupe grew up in a poor family. He once said about his background, "The struggle, we rap like where we come from in the slums. Louisiana is like the boondocks; don't no one make it out from here. So everybody who make it, you can hear it from him."
Snupe was from a small town in Louisiana called Jonesboro. At the time of his death, he was living in Baton Rouge. His very last tweet said, "I Hold it Down 4 Louisiana." His mixtape, "Real N---a in Charge," was released in April.
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