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Heavy D Death

Health Is The New Priority In Hip Hop

AP | RYAN PEARSON | Posted 05.09.2013 | Black Voices
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LOS ANGELES -- Hip-hop may need a checkup. The culture that in the 1990s lost its brightest stars to gun violence has in recent years seen a series o...

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Heavy D's Bio-Documentary Set To Air On Centric

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 04.23.2012 | Black Voices
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WASHINGTON — The story of late rap pioneer Heavy D will be chronicled in a documentary airing Sunday on Centric TV. "Be Inspired: The Life of H...

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Heavy D's Pulmonary Embolism From A Long Flight: How Can You Prevent It?

The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 01.03.2012 | Healthy Living
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The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office has ruled that Heavy D, the influential 44-year-old rapper who died on Nov. 8, was killed by a pulmonary embol...

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Heavy D's Cause Of Death Revealed

AP | Posted 02.27.2012 | Black Voices
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles coroner's office says Jamaican-born rapper Heavy D died of natural causes. The self-proclaimed "overweight lover"...

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PHOTOS: Will & Jada, Jay-Z And Other Stars Line Up For Iconic Rapper's Funeral

cdn.mediatakeout.com | Posted 01.19.2012 | Entertainment
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November 19, 2011: Heavy D was finally laid to rest yesterday in a star studded private funeral in his home town of Mount Vernon, NY. ...

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Stars Turn Out To Remember Heavy D

AP | By MESFIN FEKADU | Posted 04.09.2012 | Black Voices
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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- Heavy D was remembered with laughter and tears Friday during a star-studded funeral service that included Jay-Z and Will Smith, ...

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Heavy D's Family: Rapper A 'Kind Spirit'

The Huffington Post | Trymaine Lee | Posted 11.14.2011 | Black Voices
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The family of Dwight Errington Myers, aka, Heavy D, the rapper and 90s Hip-Hop icon who died last week, released a statement calling him “a kind and...

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WATCH: Heavy D Through The Years

Posted 01.08.2012 | Black Voices
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As the music community mourns the tragic loss of Heavy D, HuffPost BlackVoices figured that it would be an appropriate to pay homage to the "Nuttin' B...

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Heavy D Dead at 44

Posted 01.08.2012 | Black Voices
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Heavy D, the rapper whose real name is Dwight Arrington Myers, is dead at the young age of 44. He was known for heavyset physique, his dancing and ton...

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