Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade’s most memorable songs with the frenetic Jump, died at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose at his home, authorities said. He was 34.
“It appears it may have been a possible drug overdose,” said Kay Lester, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County police.
This, Lester said, is based on statements received at the scene as well as evidence turned up at Kelly’s home in south Atlanta.
According to Lester, police were called to Kelly’s home at around 4.30 pm Wednesday. He was transported to the south campus of the Atlanta Medical Centre.
Investigator Betty Honey of the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office said Kelly was pronounced dead at the hospital at around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
No official cause of death has been determined, pending an autopsy.
Kelly, known as “Mac Daddy” and Chris Smith known as “Daddy Mac”, were introduced to the music world in 1992 by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri after he discovered the pair in an Atlanta mall. The duo wore their clothes backwards as a gimmick, but they won over fans with their raps.
Their first, and by far most successful song, was Jump. The hit, off their multiplatinum 1992 debut album Totally Krossed Out, featured the two trading versus and rapping the refrain, the song’s title. The duo had surprising maturity in their rap delivery, though the song was written by Dupri. It would become a No. 1 smash in the United States and globally, and one of the most popular of that year.
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Metal spheres excavated under mexican pyramid
Washington: Archaeolog-ists, using a camera-equipped robot, have discovered hundreds of enigmatic, once-metallic spheres buried deep beneath an ancient pyramid in Mexico City.
The mysterious spheres were found during an archaeological excavation at one of the most important buildings in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihua-can.
“They look like yellow spheres, but we do not know their meaning. It’s an unprecedented discovery,” said Jorge Zavala, an archaeologist at Mexico’s National Anthropology and History Institute.
A World Heritage Site, the Mesoamerican ruins of Teotihuacan represent one of the largest urban centres of the ancient world, Discovery News reported.
The pyramid-filled city, believed to have been established around 100 BC, had more than 1,00,000 inhabitants at its peak, but was abandoned for mysterious reasons around 700 AD. The archaeological dig at the temple focused on a 330-foot-long tunnel which runs under the structure.
— PTI