Chino XL’s household verify the rapper died by suicide

The household of late rapper Chino XL have confirmed that the musician and actor died by suicide.

Chino XL – actual identify Derek Keith Barbosa – died on the age of fifty in late July. On the time of the preliminary announcement, no reason for loss of life was shared. Nonetheless, his daughters have shared a brand new assertion to Rolling Stone confirming that he had taken his personal life.

His daughters wrote to Rolling Stone: “With probably the most profound unhappiness conceivable, we share the information that our beloved father determined to finish his personal life. It’s been probably the most painful and private expertise of our lives however in honor of Suicide Consciousness Month, we determined to share this fact. Dad would hope that this information could assist another person keep alive.”

The assertion included that the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s workplace “lists his official reason for loss of life as asphyxia on account of ligature hanging”. The ladies went on to put in writing that Barbosa had suffered from “congenital coronary heart failure in 2020 and stage 4 prostate most cancers earlier this yr,” and had “struggled with life-long melancholy.”

Chino XL was born within the Bronx, New York, and rose to prominence within the 90s as a teen within the borough’s burgeoning rap scene. All through his profession, he launched 4 studio albums, two collaborative albums and one EP.

He additionally acted in movie and tv, together with visitor star roles within the Comedy Central sequence Reno 911! and the CBS present CSI: Miami, in addition to a co-starring function alongside Kate Hudson and Luke Wilson in 2003’s Rob Reiner-directed Alex & Emma. He additionally carried out in lots of indie movies, together with Brandon Sonnier’s The Beat, which premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant in 2003.

Amongst his greatest hits have been ‘No Complicated’, ‘Sickology 101’ that includes Tech N9ne, and ‘The Anthem’ that includes Sway and King Tech.

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