Rapper Tame One Dies At 52

Rapper, graffiti artist Tame One has died at 52.

Tame One’s death was confirmed by his mother, who wrote on her Facebook, “I can‘t express this any other way,” Darlene Brown Harris said in the post. “My son, Rahem Brown, Tamer Dizzle, is dead”, she wrote.

Darlene added “The medical examiner says the six pharmaceutical drugs that Trinitas hospital prescribed to him last Friday, combined with the weed he smoked over the weekend…his heart simply gave out,” she wrote.

The New Jersey rapper, who was part of the rap duo The Artifacts with El Da Sensei, released their debut album “Between A Rock and A Hard Place” in 1994.

Both Tame and El Da Sensei were rappers and graffiti artists.

The duo spilt up, reunited in 2010, releasing their album “No Expiration Date”.

Tame went on as a solo artist releasing 5 albums, his last in 2003.