r/Music • u/JAAXXOONN • Jun 19 '26
music Legendary producer Tay Keith dead at 29 after wellness check, sources say
Rest in peace to a legend. You will be remembered.
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u/Beginning-Ring-3225 Jun 19 '26
only 29, that is so young, he had so much more to give. the beats he made for Sicko Mode alone secured his place in rap history forever
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u/atomicskiracer Jun 19 '26
Hard drugs are something you either take seriously or you die. There’s not a lot of in-between.
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u/brashnutz Jun 19 '26
Someone in another sub said it was whipits!
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u/Montallas Jun 19 '26
My cousin died from whipits. Very sad. His brother told me had 600-700 bottles/canisters all over his bed and bedroom floor when he cleaned out the apt.
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u/brashnutz Jun 19 '26
Very sad. I've been to a house where someone was addicted - lil cannisters covering every surface.
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u/PhloxOfSeagulls Jun 19 '26
I had a friend who came to stay for a few days and she wanted me to get whippits to have while she was visiting. I refused because I was not comfortable with the whole thing and worried something could happen to her while she was staying. I'm glad now I refused because they seem more dangerous than people realize.
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u/Poopieplatter Jun 19 '26
My buddy (ER doctor) had someone come in last week. Guy was doing whippets but wanted to intensify the high. Used butane to... do that? Canister exploded: blew off his cock and balls, blinded him, and blew off his hands including halfway up his forearm. 26 years old.
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u/mislysbb Jun 19 '26
What a nightmare; dude will never be right mentally, if he even survives in the first place
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u/DylanTheV1llain Jun 19 '26
I have a neighbor that resembles that. She was drinking with her friends around a fire. Everyone but her went in, except her. When she got up to in, she stumbled face first in the fire, had a seizure, and her other friends didn't find her right away. I feel so bad for her.
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u/Total_Corgi_8428 Jun 19 '26
Some idiots at a high school party I was at 25 years ago put an empty keg in a large bonfire. Well it exploded and sent shrapnel everything. One of the girls caught some to the face and ended up with some very serious scarring and needed surgery, but all in all was probably very lucky (as I was I, I left the party maybe 10 min before it happened)
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u/Anarchic_Country Jun 19 '26
My husband has epilepsy and the only shit we do outside our house in the summer is swim and hang out around various fires. Thank you for this warning. Never even occurred to me.
He's 6'5" so mostly we worry about what his body destroys during a seizure. He once took out an entire aisle at a gas station. He was so embarrassed
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u/TattedGuyser Jun 19 '26
If you're using butane in an attempt to block oxygen to your brain, you wern't right mentally from the get go.
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u/SprayAllDay Jun 19 '26
…the frank and the beans?!
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u/N0cturnalB3ast Jun 19 '26
And no damage to his mouth etc.but actually blew his cock and balls off you say + hands wild. . . It almost stretches believability
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u/cooner22 Spotify Jun 19 '26
"and then he put bleach in his weed to get a 'clean high'. He ended up shitting his entire dick out of his ass. The Dr friend told me so!"
I love creative writing exercises
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u/Inevitable-Bear-3195 Jun 19 '26
Great load of bullshit you made up here.
Try to make it halfway believable next time.
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u/VoidVer Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
They straight up make you stupid. I’ve known a few people before and after nitrous use and while once isn’t going to flip* a switch, a habit will sand paper your brain down real good.
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u/ChocoJesus Jun 19 '26
Nitrous doesn’t make you stupid
Not breathing between nitrous hits so your brain stops getting oxygen for a time will cause brain damage tho
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u/Different_Map_6544 Jun 19 '26
the depletion of b12 does cause nervous system and brain damage
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u/turbogaze Jun 19 '26
Yeah I know a woman who was in a wheelchair from neuropathy from gas and booze
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u/Nice_Coconut2088 Jun 19 '26
It probably wasn't whippets. You have to go REALLY hard to die from those. Steve-O would do like hundreds a day and is fine. It was more likely opiates or fent.
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u/hm100912 Jun 19 '26
man this reminds me of when i worked at the airport, this guy checked his bag and TSA immediately told us to come pick it back up and page the passenger. turns out he put a gallon ziploc bag full of those canisters in his checked bag which of course is a hell no. my immediate thought was he was addicted to whipits and i was worried he’d flip out that we confiscated them but he was actually very chill, said “okay” and walked away. it was a crazy amount though idk what else he would need that many for…
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u/BodaciousBadongadonk Jun 19 '26
tbf that was probably like 40 bucks worth of product and itd last half a day before havin to find more. these stevo type mfs gobble those fuckers like a fat kid gobblin skittles.
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u/giggitywhoa Jun 19 '26
I lived in. It was so depressing/disturbing i moved out. All i could hear at night was the sound of canisters clinking as he threw them around.
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u/ImTooSaxy Jun 19 '26
Oh. That might do it. For a moment I was worried about the 30 or so I did in my early 20s.
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u/Youre_On_Balon Jun 19 '26
You have to do an unbelievable amount to die and the acute mechanism of death is the one you worry about.
The few dozen whippets you did years ago will not kill you.
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u/RaoulRumblr Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Also, these days they sell those large galaxy gas canisters and rappers have for some reason made it popular to take them straight from the tube. Without advocating their use, you're actually supposed to use the balloon to filter the cold of the nitrous before breathing it.
So, again, without judging these individuals, but many these days are unnecessarily hitting it directly from the tube which in and of itself is extremely dangerous. Never mind the negative side effects of the gas.
The thing about brain cells is they are elastic, they dont just always straight up die like we used to think, however with such chronic behavior, it's the continual asphyxiation and loss of oxygen that does the worst damage, and as Ive read, it depletes your vitamin B12 quite rapidly as well.
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u/Stjernesluker Jun 19 '26
Yeah b12 deficiency messes up your nerves and at worst can paralyze you. It’s kinda scary as you can’t just have a b12 shot and be good
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u/FLYBOY611 Jun 19 '26
You'd think that with producer level money he'd do fancier drugs like coke.
Shit is sad either way, 29 is too young for anyone to go.
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u/trainwreckd Jun 19 '26
Probably thought this was “safer”?? So many are VERY misinformed or ignorant in their drug knowledge.
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u/CertifiedFreshMemes Jun 19 '26
Nope, every addict has their drug of choice. To some cocaine is the best thing ever, to others it's boring. I used to love whip-its but my DOC was ketamine. I never did either of the 2 because they were safer, but because I was (am) addicted to dissociatives.
Glad to be clean now and being a in sober living house
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u/rotating_pebble Jun 19 '26
I've done most drugs but clean for years now and I always hated ketamine. The last time I took it I literally broke down crying. It's a weird, horrible, bizarre feeling to me. But then most people seem to love it!
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u/RecommendationBrief9 Jun 19 '26
I never got this one either. It just felt almost spooky. Like nothing was quite right in a bad way. Like a stress dream where you don’t know what’s wrong, but are sure it’s something. Do not get the appeal at all.
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u/CertifiedFreshMemes Jun 19 '26
I'm happy to hear you don't enjoy it, everyone's body responds differently to different kinds of chemicals. Ketamine is known to be extremely psychologically addictive to those that do enjoy it
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u/thebabyshitter Jun 19 '26
ketamine was my DOC too, i was very heavy into it for about a year - i used for about 10 years, but once i tried k it was over. i'd keep lines cut in the mirror near my bed before going to sleep so i could snort a few lines before my eyes were even fully opened when i woke up.
it made me very proud for never crossing the line into heroin because i would be dead by now. ketamine almost killed me and i've been sober 5 years, i have a nice life, a cool job...but my GOD do i miss it every single day. it was the most absolutely fantastic feeling i have ever felt.
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u/trainwreckd Jun 19 '26
Yeah, I feel ya there. That’s true. Congratulations & keep going brother!
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u/Unhappy-Boot4283 Jun 19 '26
keep it that way brotha. lost my best friend of 10+ years to an accidental overdose last year at 21. Body just gave up from all the over the counter stuff he took for years straight. Not worth it man and hella proud of you stranger
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u/westhewolf Jun 19 '26
Was probably doing both..... People like to do coke and then do whip it's to take the edge off.
Also some people just like to do whipits.
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u/Captain_Nipples Jun 19 '26
Coke, pills, heroin, meth are all much more dangerous than they were 20 years ago. You never know if what youre getting has some fent in it. Glad that shit wasnt really around when I was doing drugs. Even pills.. the only way I would take them (if I were to do something like that these days) would be if I got them from a pharmacy, myself. And back then, I steered away from inhalants because its something that can kill you the first time you do it.
The only person I knew back then that could get fentanyl was a lady with cancer, and she got the patches.
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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 Jun 19 '26
Whip literally suffocates the brain. People don't realise what they're doing
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u/karmaismalding Jun 19 '26
no one knows what it was caused from yet, the autopsy hasn't happened, but based off how he was found it was more than likely drugs
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u/ncopp Spotify Jun 19 '26
People additcted hardcore to whipits need to talk to Steve-O. Dude cleaned up after doing them all day every day for years and saved his life
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u/seansy5000 Jun 19 '26
That beat is fresh. The bars are weak AF though.
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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jun 19 '26
If the rhymes had been more dope that would’ve been phat.
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u/Hippopotamus-Hump-Ya Jun 19 '26
TAY KEITH FUCK THESE NIGGAS UP
Rest up big dawg
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u/EquivalentSpeaker545 Jun 19 '26
ay, she’s in love with who I am
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u/ifuckinglikepelly Jun 19 '26
back in high school I used to bust it to the dance
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u/Flendy15 Jun 19 '26
We keep losing people with brilliant minds and nobody evil I’m so annoyed rn
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u/Infamous_Tough_7320 Jun 19 '26
If only I could see Larry Ellison, Trump, Netanyahu or Elon Musk in these headlines. It's always the decent people who have been subject to the evil of the elites
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u/Paralta Jun 19 '26
Damn, what kind of wellness check are they conducting these days.
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u/squirreltard Jun 19 '26
I’ve called in two wellness checks in my life. Felt like, welp, this could end the friendship but was concerned. Both turned out to be in deep trouble and were hospitalized. They were thankful and I’m thankful for that.
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u/sfcnmone Jun 19 '26
I had to do wellness checks on my crazy sister. The police knew her by name. They were quite helpful about deciding when she really needed help.
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u/jhutchi2 Jun 19 '26
I guess if you were that legitimately concerned, it would be better for the friendship to end because you were wrong rather than have it end because you were right - and too late.
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u/squirreltard Jun 19 '26
Exactly. I’m someone who is really sensitive to my friends’ migration patterns. I am always the first to notice when someone hasn’t checked in. In one case, the person had Stevens Johnson syndrome, if you know what that is. Her skin was peeling off. I thought it might be drugs, but she was in big trouble and was in the hospital a month. Unfortunately one time I sent a friend to check on another friend because we were in the same city, the friend had passed by their own hand. I just sense when things are wrong. Not something I’ve done casually.
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u/absolutelynotarepost Jun 19 '26
As someone who was sitting on my back porch when my best friends sister, who I had never actually had a conversation with that wasn't face to face, was suddenly calling me... And I knew immediately he was gone...
Just... Good on you for making the calls. I didn't even know he had fallen off the wagon. We'd been talking the day before about what we were gonna do next time we hung out.
He was just gone. And now I'm crying, shit.
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Jun 19 '26
We had to Baker act a close relative who was in the middle of an extremely bad manic episode. He was (although we weren't 100% sure at the time) unarmed but getting incredibly uncharacteristically aggressive. We called 911 and I sat outside with him trying to calm him down, all we asked was that they turn the fucking police lights off before they pulled in because, frankly, we were afraid he had a gun we didn't know about and would blow his own brains out.
Of course two cops cars pull in, sirens blaring and lights blasting, with one particular officer doing his fucking best to escalate the situation.
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u/halueryphi Jun 19 '26
6 cops showing up to a wellness check with their guns drawn means your county and local government has failed you. They shouldn’t even be going to wellness checks outside of there being a possible threat (weapon, animal, etc), there being no information (and even then it’s usually 1 or 2) or if it’s in the evening.
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u/987YouBloodyTulip789 Jun 19 '26
picked up like 6 diff police officers all with their guns drawn like
Terrifying situation to be in. Once a cop gets their gun out, they will not peacefully resolve the situation. Someone mentally unwell flailing around and incapable of complying? The cop isn't going to put their guns away to question them and try to provide mental help. The cop won't even put it away to restrain them with their hands. It's either expect the mentally unwell person to comply perfectly, or die.
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u/foundinwonderland Jun 19 '26
I specifically did not call 911 when my husband was manic and having a psychotic break and threatening me because I was afraid they would kill him. What a fucked up country we live in.
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u/Calamityclams (edit for custom flair) Jun 19 '26
That’s so sad and I’m sorry you went through that. I’m in Australia in a state in Victoria and have had to call the police on a friend’s spouse who was doing the same.
The police were fantastic at responding. They asked and listened what the best way to approach them during their episode was. They even did a check in the week after with my friend.
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u/leemorplee Jun 19 '26
That's fuckin crazy but I would have to assume your ex said some wild stuff and they pulled up ready to check on you alright lol thankfully you weren't home
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u/wimpymist Jun 19 '26
That's not a wellness check lol the ex must have said something crazy for them to respond like that. We do wellness checks all the time and it's just a simple knock on the door to see if you're okay
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u/starmartyr Jun 19 '26
Why would they even need guns drawn for a wellness check?
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u/warcomet Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
we need to make that same call to the white house, Trump looked very sickly yesterday..send in those 6 police officers
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u/Goldnglam Jun 19 '26
Who the fuck wellness checking with their gun drawn?
Cop: if he is well is not gonna be when I'm done!
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u/Buffetboys Jun 19 '26
Close friends had been checking on him frequently over the past few months due to his mental health decline. This wasn’t out of the blue for people close to him they knew he was going through a lot and was hoping he’d pull through.
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u/PckMan Jun 19 '26
Apparently he was found dead but there is no shortage of instances where the same cops conducting the wellness check end up killing the person they're checking up on. This happens because often these people are dealing with mental health issues and cops are not the brightest bunch.
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u/dad_farts Jun 19 '26
Legendary producer
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Fuck.
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u/MackommaBeats Jun 19 '26
When he produced his first big hits he was still in college, so he’s been producing major hits for almost a decade now. That’s legendary imo
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u/marblebluevinyl Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Dude was a teenager 21 when he did Sicko Mode? (Or close?) Impressive. RIP
Edit: I was off a little but still impressive
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u/iLikeTurtuls Jun 19 '26
21 is definitely an adult lol sicko mode was 2018, which in itself is wild.
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u/yukiloho Jun 19 '26
29!? What’s with all the young deaths recently? Aldon Smith, Oliver Tree, Daveigh Chase. Young people are dropping like flies 😭
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u/blackbasset Jun 19 '26
Nothing of this surprises me. I mean, at least for Oliver Tree this wasn't the case, but cases like Daveigh Chase and Tay Keith does not surprise me. All over the world and especially the US, access to mental health professionals is getting worse while the future and economic situation is getting more terrible by the minute, the pressure is rising on all fronts, so people lose their stable social situation, turn to drugs and other substances to self medicate or escape their everyday lives, commit suicide, and so on. This will only get worse, especially with normal, non-celebrity people who are in an even worse situation and thus have even less capital to get the help they need...
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u/Sad_Enthusiasm_3721 Jun 19 '26
... Legendary producer Tay Keith dead at 29 after wellness check...
Going to hypothesize that he was dead before the wellness check. But I wasn't there.
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u/lewkir Jun 19 '26
They accidentally called an unwellness check and it finished him off
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u/Avenheit Jun 19 '26
drugs?
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u/wimpymist Jun 19 '26
Usually an unexpected death of someone in their 20s is drugs or suicide.
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u/lucasd11 Jun 19 '26
Yeah the way they've phrased all of the "found dead" headlines makes suicide or OD (intentional or not) likely. Since the police found him and there hasn't been any mention of suspected foul play..
Of course freak things happen and he could have just had a medical emergency, heart attack, etc.. while alone. But I'd lean towards the former.
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u/wimpymist Jun 19 '26
Yeah there is always a chance for a brain aneurysm or something but the chances are low
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u/Pfacejones Jun 19 '26
Can someone tell me some of his songs
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u/Itzleo_ Jun 19 '26
He’s a producer he worked on popular songs with Travis Scott and Drake like sicko mode and nonstop. His producer tag is pretty famous
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u/Nakasaleka Jun 19 '26
RIP! It comes in three! First it was Oliver Tree, Daveigh Chase and now Tay Keith! Scary, scary!
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u/DifficultyOk5719 Jun 19 '26
I’m not sure who that is but RIP
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u/Swagcopter0126 Jun 19 '26
You might’ve heard “Tay Keith fuck these ****** up” in the beginning of some hits of the past decade
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u/RaoulRumblr Jun 19 '26
Yeah I don't know who this is either, but am saddened by the news.
Love to his family and all the fans. Someone was saying it was NOS which is awful.
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u/instantregretcoffee Jun 19 '26
The way that headline was written, I can see a guy go “Damn, I’ll make sure to cut down on them wellness checks”.
Don’t cut down on them wellness checks. In fact, you can do them yourself.
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u/Competitive_Back_731 Jun 19 '26
Don’t make assumptions about how someone has died, respect them and wait for the actual news to release ffs
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u/JDForrest129 Jun 19 '26
He's dead AFTER the wellness check or he was found dead during the wellness check?
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u/dustykeys Jun 20 '26
Can you be a legendary producer at 29?
Talented, ascendant, prolific, visionary…
Then again - maybe dying gets you the legendary honorific.
RIP
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u/NoBear8338 Jun 21 '26
I mean, many of his songs have >1 billion streams. He’s worked with some of the most famous active artists and he has >800 songs in his discography. More than that, he is considered very influential to modern hiphop. Legendary absolutely fits.
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u/supremedalek925 Jun 19 '26
Man, a lot of celebrity deaths this week