R.I.P. XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo

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Something really weird happened on the same day (June 18th), two young rappers XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo (aged 20 and 21 respectively) were shot and killed.

We don’t really follow rap, but by all accounts XXXTentacion was a rising rapper who knew his lifestyle would lead to death. In an recent TMZ interview, he said that he wouldn’t hire bodyguards because when it’s his time to leave, it’s his time. Just prior to his death, he had a positive message of hope... as if he knew he was going to be killed.

With his death, his two albums 17 and ? skyrocketed to #1 on the sales charts.

As for Jimmy Wopo, he is affiliated with fellow Pittsburgh based rapper, Wiz Khalifa. Wopo was found shot in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

Below are more deaths for the month of June - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2018.

June (37)

[19 Jun 2018] Efrén Echeverría (Paraguayan musician, composer, and record collector), 86

[19 Jun 2018] Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga (Ecuadorian Andean cumbia musician), 82

[19 Jun 2018] Bansi Quinteros (Spanish keyboardist for GMS), 41, blood cancer

[19 Jun 2018] Lowrell Simon (American soul singer-songwriter), 75

[18 Jun 2018] Barry McDaniel (American opera singer), 87

[18 Jun 2018] Billy Sammeth (American talent manager for Dolly Parton and Cher), 66, pancreatic cancer

[18 Jun 2018] Jimmy Wopo (American rapper), 21, murdered

[18 Jun 2018] XXXTentacion (American rapper), 20, murdered

[17 Jun 2018] Rebecca Parris (American jazz singer), 66

[15 Jun 2018] Matt Murphy (American guitarist for The Blues Brothers), 88

[15 Jun 2018] Nick Knox (American drummer for The Cramps), 60

[15 Jun 2018] Enoch zu Guttenberg (German conductor), 71

[13 Jun 2018] D. J. Fontana (American Hall of Fame rock drummer for Elvis Presley), 87

[12 Jun 2018] Jarosław Kozidrak (Polish guitarist, keyboardist and composer), 63

[12 Jun 2018] Jon Hiseman (English drummer for Colosseum), 73, brain cancer

[12 Jun 2018] Wayne Dockery (American jazz double bassist), 76

[12 Jun 2018] Helena Dunicz-Niwińska (Polish violinist, translator and author), 102

[11 Jun 2018] Maria Butaciu (Romanian folk singer), 78

[11 Jun 2018] Bonaldo Giaiotti (Italian operatic bass), 85

[11 Jun 2018] Yvette Horner (French accordionist), 95

[10 Jun 2018] Neal E. Boyd (American singer for America's Got Talent), 42, heart and kidney failure and liver disease

[10 Jun 2018] Ras Kimono (Nigerian reggae musician), 60

[09 Jun 2018] Lorraine Gordon (American jazz club owner for Village Vanguard), 95, stroke

[08 Jun 2018] Danny Kirwan (British Hall of Fame guitarist for Fleetwood Mac), 68

[08 Jun 2018] Gino Santercole (Italian singer and songwriter), 77, heart attack

[07 Jun 2018] Stefan Weber (Austrian singer), 71

[06 Jun 2018] Jimmy Gonzalez (American Tejano singer for Mazz), 67, diabetes

[06 Jun 2018] Teddy Johnson (English singer for Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson), 97

[06 Jun 2018] Ralph Santolla (American metal guitarist for Deicide), 51, heart attack

[05 Jun 2018] Brian Browne (Canadian jazz pianist), 81, lung and tracheal cancer

[04 Jun 2018] Norman Edge (American jazz musician), 84

[04 Jun 2018] Jalal Mansur Nuriddin (American singer-songwriter for The Last Poets), 73, cancer

[04 Jun 2018] Marc Ogeret (French singer), 86

[03 Jun 2018] Robert Brylewski (Polish singer-songwriter for Armia), 57

[03 Jun 2018] Clarence Fountain (American gospel musician for The Blind Boys of Alabama), 88, diabetes

[01 Jun 2018] Eddy Clearwater (American blues singer and guitarist), 83, heart failure

[01 Jun 2018] Sinan Sakić (Serbian turbo-folk singer),61

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