Chris Kelly, half of 1990s Kris Kross rap duo, dead at 34

chris kelly, one-half of one's nineteen nineties rap duo kris kross, died wednesday at an atlanta hospital after he was found unresponsive at his home. he was 34.

how kelly died isnt known, and therefore the fulton county medical examiners office aforesaid an autopsy is planned for thursday.

kelly, along with chris smith, shot out to stardom in 1992 with jump, that spent eight weeks on high of one's billboard hot 100.

the duo opened for michael jackson that year on his dangerous world tour.

and the penchant for sporting their clothes backward were, at the very least obtain a time, widely emulated.

im sporting my clothes to labor backwards tomorrow, michael skolnik, editor in chief of one's hip hop website world grind aforesaid, when he learned of one's death.

leslie tookes, a cnn project coordinator, lived next door out to kelly. like others, she too was saddened by his untimely death.

we typically heard him enjoying classical music and therefore the piano, tookes aforesaid. he was a low-key kinds of person who was terribly talented and courteous, friendly and wonderful out to our 5-year-old twins.

indeed, gone too soon.

discovered on a mall

kelly and smith were 13-year-olds once they were discovered in 1991 at an atlanta mall by producer jermaine dupri.

going via the stage name mac daddy ( with smith called daddy mac ), the try followed up their smash jump with the one warm it up.

along, the songs pushed their debut album, totally krossed out, out to multiplatinum standing.

next came 1993s da bomb.

other then the album failed out to find listed here of one's duos debut, giant part'>mostly as a result of the boys had hit puberty and then they will were marketed with the use of a tougher image.

their career never once more reached the heights of their total debut, other then these continued to take music.

in 1996, the duo released the album young, rich and dangerous.

the try reunited for one night in february obtain a twentieth anniversary party for dupris thus therefore def label.

rapper da brat, who conjointly performed that night, wrote about kellys death, rest in peace out to my lil bro chris kelly of kris kross. dam wasnt we only at rehearsal and doin a thus therefore def20 show ?