{"id":156610,"date":"2018-03-14T04:48:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156610"},"modified":"2018-03-14T04:48:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:48:58","slug":"former-rapper-craig-mack-dies-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/14\/former-rapper-craig-mack-dies-in-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Former rapper Craig Mack dies in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156611\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/422011_318481154860520_662640597_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156611\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/422011_318481154860520_662640597_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Former Rapper Craig Mack (Photo: Craig Mack Official\/Facebook)\" width=\"305\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/422011_318481154860520_662640597_n.jpg 305w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/422011_318481154860520_662640597_n-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Former Rapper Craig Mack (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/237953759579927\/photos\/a.237965346245435.58168.237953759579927\/318481154860520\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/237953759579927\/\">Craig Mack Official\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WALTERBORO, S.C. \u2014 \u00a0Former rapper Craig Mack, best known for the platinum 1994 hit\u201dFlava in Ya Ear\u201d has died in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Colleton County Corner Richard Harvey says the 47-year-old Mack died at his home in Walterboro around 9 p.m. Monday. Harvey said it appeared Mack died of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Island, New York, native at one time was part of Diddy&#8217;s Bad Boy Entertainment, which released his first album,\u201dProject: Funk da World,\u201d anchored by\u201dFlava in Ya Ear,\u201d which was nominated for a Grammy. His follow-up single,\u201dGet Down\u201d went gold.<\/p>\n<p>After Mack left Diddy, he released a second album,\u201dOperation: Get Down\u201d in 1997 but left the music industry and devoted his life to religion.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Scratch said on Instagram that Mack formerly handled his turntable setups and breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALTERBORO, S.C. \u2014 \u00a0Former rapper Craig Mack, best known for the platinum 1994 hit\u201dFlava in Ya Ear\u201d has died in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48270],"class_list":["post-156610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-craig-mack","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}