By Peter White
11.01.2020 - 06:26 / pitchfork.com
New Orleans rapper and bounce music icon 5th Ward Weebie has died, CNN and The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate report. Weebie’s publicist Johnathan Thomas told CNN that the artist had a “heart attack which turned into emergency heart surgery and ultimately heart failure.” 5th Ward Weebie was 42 years old. When reached for comment by Pitchfork, Thomas provided the following statement on Weebie’s death:
After getting his start in the local music industry in the late 1990s, 5th Ward
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5th Ward Weebie, the New Orleans rapper who had a hand in bringing the local sound of bounce music to the world, has died after complications from a ruptured artery. He was 42. A representative confirmed the rapper's passing to WWLTV on Thursday.
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