Chris "Mac Daddy" Of Kriss Kross Dead At 34

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posted May 01, 2013 at 9:29PM CDT | 2 comments

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Kriss Kross' Chris Kelly, b/k/a Mac Daddy, was found unresponsive in his home on Wednesday.

Chris Kelly, best known as "Mac Daddy" of '90s Hip Hop duo Kriss Kross, has reportedly died.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Kelly was found unresponsive in his home on Wednesday (May 1) afternoon.

Kelly was transported to Atlanta Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Kriss Kross was a child Rap duo consisting of Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith. Kriss Kross landed a smash hit with 1992's "Jump," which featured the group's trademark backwards outfits.

The former So So Def act reunited to perform at the label's 20th anniversary all-star concert in Atlanta.

Kelly revealed in a January 2013 interview with Yahoo! that he had gone to school to be a music engineer. "I just wanted to do something different," he explained. "Get more on the technical side of things than just being an artist, and produce. I just wanted to be [the] all around best I could be as far as doing everything."

Kelly was 34 years old.

HipHopDX would like to offer its condolences to the friends and family of Chris Kelly at this time, and will update you as this story develops.
 
Damn man....Rip man.....Time is short on this earth for real. I was listening to Young Rich and Dangerous like 2 months ago thinking why haven't they put anything out since then.
 
And I never realized in my youth that the very first bar of "Jump" was a shot at ABC...

..."Jump" > "Ether" + "Hit Em Up."
 
My very first CD was totally crossed out... Pretty sure I still know the whole thing word for word.

RIP
 
If it was not for KrIs Kross I would not of grown up the hip hop head I was.

I will never forget being a 10 year old shortie and seeing them on In Living Color and the next day rocking my jeans and starter button up backwards to school.

RIP
 
:frown: R.I.P. to the Mac Daddy

I remember in my middle/high school we had Kris Kross day one year :lol:..and the whole school did it..classic :pimp:
 
Dude was only 34, that sucks. I don't know if I could go around bumping Totally Krossed Out today, but I can still get all the way down with Tonight's the Night. That song is too smooth.
 
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Dude was only 34, that sucks. I don't know if I could go around bumping Totally Krossed Out today, but I can still get all the way down with Tonight's the Night. That song is too smooth.
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that whole album was good
 
If I'm not mistaken, he has had a history of illnesses. So sad to hear about this. They were much bigger than "Jump Jump"
 
NIKESUX said:
If I'm not mistaken, he has had a history of illnesses. So sad to hear about this. They were much bigger than "Jump Jump"
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Yea he was sick for awhile after they dropped young rich & dangerous he was losing hair & everything but he seem to bounce back in the early 2000's but sad to hear this news I was just playing "TONIGHT'S DA NIGHT" while I was at work last week..I remember like yesterday when my big bro brought "TOTALLY KROSSED OUT" at SAM GOODY back in 92' this is shocking to hear though RIP CHRIS K...
 
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ATLANTA (AP) — Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic "Jump," died at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose at his home, authorities said. He was 34.

"It appears it may have been a possible drug overdose," said Cpl. Kay Lester, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County police.

This, Lester said, is based on statements received at the scene as well as evidence turned up at Kelly's home in south Atlanta.

According to Lester, police were called to Kelly's home at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was transported to the south campus of the Atlanta Medical Center.

Investigator Betty Honey of the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said Kelly was pronounced dead at the hospital at around 5 p.m. Wednesday.

No official cause of death has been determined, pending an autopsy.

Kelly, known as "Mac Daddy," and Chris Smith, known as "Daddy Mac," were introduced to the music world in 1992 by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri after he discovered the pair in an Atlanta mall. The duo wore their clothes backwards as a gimmick, but they won over fans with their raps.

Their first, and by far most successful song, was "Jump." The hit, off their multiplatinum 1992 debut album "Totally Krossed Out," featured the two trading versus and rapping the refrain, the song's title. The duo had surprising maturity in their rap delivery, though the song was written by Dupri. It would become a No. 1 smash in the United States and globally, and one of the most popular of that year.

Their success led to instant fame: They toured with Michael Jackson, appeared on TV shows, and even had their own video game.

The group was never able to match the tremendous success of their first song, though they had other hits like "Warm It Up," and "Tonite's tha Night."

In 2009, after photos surfaced that showed him with bald spots on his head, there were rumors that he had cancer. But in an interview posted on YouTube by Straight from the A TV, he said he suffered from alopecia, a condition in which people lose their hair.

"My health is good, I just got alopecia, I don't have cancer, not other sort of diseases," he said.

Earlier this year, the group performed together to celebrate the anniversary of Durpri's label, So So Def.


Lucas in Atlanta, Entertainment Correspondent Oscar Wells Gabriel II in Washington and AP Entertainment Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody in New York contributed to this report.



SMMFH :smh:
 
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ILL LEGAL OPERATION said:
And I never realized in my youth that the very first bar of "Jump" was a shot at ABC...

..."Jump" > "Ether" + "Hit Em Up."
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i know your joking but them dissing abc was pathetic cuz they were biting them in the first place... then illegal took a dump on kris kross on the track we getz busy for dissing abc

rip
 
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