{"id":194159,"date":"2024-03-12T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=194159"},"modified":"2024-03-12T01:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T00:52:40","slug":"bo-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/bo-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Jam&#8217;s Female Rapper Bo$$ Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit-born emcee, <strong>Bo$$<\/strong>, who was the first female signee to\u00a0<em>Def Jam West, <\/em>and is often credited as the first female gangsta rapper, has unfortunately passed away on March 11th, 2024.\u00a0 Born Lichelle Marie Laws, Bo$$ has made waves with her debut album <em>Born Gangstaz<\/em> in 1993, \u00a0with Billboard-charting singles &#8220;Deeper&#8221; and &#8220;Recipe Of A Hoe&#8221;, after being discovered by<strong> DJ Quik<\/strong>. While the cause of death remains unconfirmed, it is likely further complications from her long battle with renal disease, from which she suffered since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>May she rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYjwGXoXI8A?si=_cjZfPMMlHwMdvlI\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit-born emcee, Bo$$, who was the first female signee to\u00a0Def Jam West, and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":194170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bo-4.jpg?fit=1245%2C699&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-OvB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}