Jean-Michel Basquiat was young when he reached the apex of his fame and then overdosed on heroin in his downtown New York City studio. But it’s easy to forget just how young: he was an international sensation by the age of 23, and by 25 he was a millionaire.
Rammellzee, the pioneering hip hop artist and "Wild Style" star whose ten-minute-plus 1983 record "Beat Bop" is still fresher than just about anything on the radio, has apparently died. His death was first announced on the Twitter page of hip-hop legend Fab Five Freddy, who would know.
