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RIP: Craig Mack, Long Island Bad Boy rapper

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“I’m straight rap great, busting heads, straighten dreads / I’m everlasting, like the toe on PRO-Keds”
– Craig Mack

From the Daily News:

Craig Mack, the Long Island rapper who found fame on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records in the mid-1990s, has died at age 46, his producer confirmed to the Daily News.

Mack — who launched to hip-hop acclaim with the platinum hit “Flava in Ya Ear” in 1994 before being overshadowed by fellow artists such as the Notorious B.I.G. — died of heart failure at a hospital near his Walterboro, S.C., home Monday. […]