Rapper Kenneth Edward Rashaad Bailey, who performed as Young Scooter, 39, died on his birthday—March 28—in Atlanta. He was fleeing police, who had been called about a “dispute with a weapon,” when he fell scaling a back-yard fence—the police said he died of “leg injuries,” and his family and friends said “mm-hmmm.” Scooter was a Southern hip-hop rapper; I listened to his “Jugg King,” and you know, dears . . . I have tried, I really have, to like rap and hip-hop, but I just can’t. For black musical artists, give me Valaida Snow or James Reese Europe. I’m sure Scooter was a delightful and talented young man, though. He became a star with his 2013 mixtape (kind of a Whitman’s Sampler of his current songs) Street Lottery; he went on to work with such delightfully named artists as Wacka Flocka Flame, Da Honorable C.N.O.T.E., Bun B, Lil Boosie, Webbie, and Lil Phat (I swear I did not make any of those up). “It’s just called count music,” Scooter said of his work. “I don’t really care what I say on a beat as long as it’s about some money. When you try to think hard and write it out, that’s when it’s gonna be fucked up.”
Young Scooter’s “Jugg King” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcq3cGrlG0
