Atlanta rapper Carlos “Shawty Lo” Walker, a member of the rap group D4L whose “Laffy Taffy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005, died early Wednesday morning in a car crash in Fulton County, Georgia. He was 40.
Shawty Lo’s manager Johnnie Cabbell used the rapper’s Twitter to confirm that the rapper died in the single-car accident. “My brother has passed; he is no longer here but his spirit, his kind heart and his music will live on,” Cabbell wrote. “Long live Shawty Lo King of Bankhead.”
“I am so so so devastated that words can not describe how I feel right now,” Cabbell wrote on Instagram. “Shawty Lo was not just my artist he was my Brother He was My Friend. I have been Lo MGR for over 10 [years]. He was Loyal and he had my back when no one else did. I could count on him when I had no one else to turn to. We been thru so much together. If you knew Lo, then you know he was genuine. He was Real.”
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