Black Rappers That Died 2025. Harlem’s black rob (born robert ross in buffalo) died of cardiac arrest and kidney failure in the spring of 2021. There, we find our first clue.

Rappers “are experiencing what so many black men experience,” said alford young jr., a sociology professor at the university of michigan. From pnb rock, coolio, dmx to mf doom, here are some of the most beloved rappers who have died in the past half decade