{"id":223407,"date":"2026-02-07T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=223407"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:26:47","slug":"90s-underground-mainstay-mr-complex-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/90s-underground-mainstay-mr-complex-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"90s Underground Champ, Mr. Complex has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey S. Roberts. better known as <strong>Mr. Complex<\/strong>, a prominent figure in underground hip-hop, has unfortunately passed away. Hailing from Queens, Mr. Complex made waves in the 90s with his string of successful independent 12&#8243; singles. Most notable was the 1995 joint, &#8220;Visualize&#8221;, which earned him a spot on the charts among major-label artists. In 2000, he released a compilation of his 12&#8243; run on <em>Rawkus Records<\/em>, titled &#8220;Complex Catalogue.&#8221; Since then, he released five full-length projects, with the last one being 2017&#8217;s &#8220;F0rever New.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Complex was a part of <strong>Polyrhythm Addicts<\/strong>, alongside <strong>DJ Spinna<\/strong>, <strong>Shabaam Sahdeeq<\/strong>, and<strong> Tiye Phoenix<\/strong> (who replaced <strong>Apani B<\/strong> when the group reunited in 2007). Polyrhythm Addicts released two albums, &#8220;Rhyme-Related&#8221; in 1999 and &#8220;Break Glass&#8221; in 2007. He was also closely affiliated with <strong>Organized Konfusion<\/strong> (<strong>Prince Po<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Pharoahe Monch<\/strong>). During his career, he worked with other notable names, such as <strong>Biz Markie<\/strong>, <strong>Dilated Peoples<\/strong>, <strong>Large Professor<\/strong>, <strong>O.C.<\/strong>, <strong>Sadat X<\/strong>, <strong>Morcheeba<\/strong>, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May he rest in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jL1zuaOjDqA?si=5Sybu_ckJXq6hW5I\" 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>Corey S. Roberts. better known as Mr. Complex, a prominent figure in underground hip-hop, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":223418,"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-223407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mr.-Complex.avif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-W7l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223407","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=223407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}