Sean “Ruck” Price, one-half of the pioneering duo Heltah Skeltah, and member of the groundbreaking Boot Camp Clik and Random Axe has departed this life on August 8, 2015.
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Representatives for the hip-hop artist tell The Associated Press Price died early Saturday in Brooklyn. His left behind his wife and three children. Additionally, Sean revealed this summer, plans of working with M.O.P’s Lil Fame (a/k/a Fizzy Womack) on a full collaborative album. Heltah Skeltah would later drop their debut cult classic, Nocturnal, which featured some of “90s underground hip-hop’s most memorable tracks including “Therapy”, “Operation Lockdown”, and the posse cut “LeflaurLeflahEshkoshka”. “Sean’s family and friends are asking for time to grieve and process he news”.
“Prayers to the duck down family”.
Rapper Sean Price performs during the 2012 Rock the Bells Festival.
During the course of his almost 20-year career, Price released several solo albums including his first effort Monkey Barz in 2005 on Duck Down Records.
Brooklyn rapper Sean Price is no longer with us. He was scheduled to release a mixtape titled “Songs in the Key of Price” later this month.
“He was really one of the most genuinely amusing people that I knew”, says the New Jersey born producer known as Just Blaze, who was cracking jokes with Price on Twitter the day before he died.
“Sean Price, who turned 43 in March of this year, was a belived rap artist”.
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Here’s Dead End Hip Hop’s tribute to Sean Price. Rest in peace, Ruck.
