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| Hurricane G in a screengrab from her video for "Somebody Else." |
Trailblazing rapper Hurricane G is dead at 52.
Hip-hop legend Erick Sermon, who shared a daughter with her, of EPMD confirmed the news on Sunday.
“My heart is hardened today. One of my good friends… my oldest daughters mother passed away today,” Sermon wrote on Instagram in a touching tribute.
He added that Hurricane G, born Gloria RodrÃguez, was "a legend in her own right in the Hiphop community."
"She rapped with me. @redmangilla she paved the way," Sermon said.
The Brooklyn native never forgot her roots. She performed in both English and Spanish throughout a career spanning 30 years.
She was the first female member of Hit Squad — the hip-hop collective originally formed by Sermon and his partner-in-rhyme with EPMD, Parrish Smith, in the 1990s. Hurricane G made her mark on the loaded roster which included future icons Redman and Das EFX.
Her career as a solo artist peaked in 1997 with the release of "Somebody Else." The single, from her debut album "All Woman," charted at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart.
Her impact went far beyond her own music, though, through collaborations over the years with several prominent artists, including Redman, Xzibit and Diddy.
Hurricane G's appearance on Redman's 1992 hit "Tonight’s da Night" was her big break in the industry. She also was featured on tracks with Keith Murray, Delinquent Habits, Funkdoobiest and the Cocoa Brovaz.
In 1999, she was featured on the track "P.E. 2000" from Diddy's platinum-certified second album, "Forever."
Her final solo effort was 2013's "Mami & Papi," featuring Thirstin Howl III.
No cause of death was given for the artist, but her daughter Lexus Sermon, revealed on Facebook in May that her mom was battling lung cancer.
"My mom has stage 4 lung cancer," captioned a photo of her mother smiling. "Don't know how many of you understand what that means but even after 30 years of life I'm still trying to process it myself. I have never cried so much in my life I have never felt so disconnected from reality in my life.
"Yet my mom still managed to be the one to hold it together and say ''don't worry baby everything's gonna be alright."
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