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A dozen of Brooklyn’s sons went to early graves.

Twenty-seven were born in the state of New York, and most of those in the five boroughs. Twenty of the 57 Black men here died in their 20s. In that year alone, we lost eight artists, ranging in age from 28 to 57. It was 2021 when moans of woe about Black men in rap music dying young erupted into a panic of calls to action. “When his momma came home, he was sitting at the kitchen table, passed away.” “He laid his head in his arms at the kitchen table,” Beauregard told the website Hip Hop DX the day after Dunigan died. His half brother and fellow Three 6 Mafia founder, DJ Paul, born Paul Beauregard, painted a desolate picture. Near the midpoint is Lord Infamous - Ricky Dunigan - who in 2013 had a heart attack in his sleep. Trugoy the Dove, who died in February of heart failure at 54. Chronologically, this grim data set begins with Scott Sterling of the Bronx, better known as DJ Scott La Rock, who was shot to death in 1987 at age 25, and stops with De La Soul’s David Jolicoeur of Brooklyn, a.k.a.