Almost two months after the passing of Hip-Hop legend Prodigy was announced, his official cause of death is now being revealed.
According to TMZ, the official cause of the late Prodigy‘s death has been revealed as death by choking after the rapper choked on an egg while he was being treated at a Las Vegas hospital.
As previously reported, Prodigy had performed with Havoc for a Mobb Deep show in Vegas before enduring a sickle cell flare-up. Prodigy, real name Albert Johnson, was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead. Partner in rhyme Havoc revealed at the time that due to being used to seeing P in the hospital due to his illness, he didn’t believe he would pass the way he did.
“We used to P going to the hospital, you know what I’m saying?” Havoc explained to TMZ. “Not like every day, but we’ve been dealing with this for over 20 years. So, you know, P goes to the hospital, stays there for like three days, five tops, and he’d get back better than he out. So it wasn’t like no, nothing to be like, ‘Oh my god, he crazy sick.’ It’s just sometimes, he has sickle cell [crises].”
Havoc states that when he first received the news he laughed in disbelief because he had spoken with his friend the previous day. But Havoc revealed that he couldn’t shake the feeling, so he called his road manager who confirmed that what he thought was a rumor was actually true.
“When I got the call at like 11 in the morning, I didn’t believe it. I actually laughed because I didn’t believe it was true. Like no one could tell me that my partner who I just talked to yesterday and was getting the updates on had passed. Plus people do that to celebrities all the time. After about an hour of me thinking about it, I figured I needed to call my manager just to ease my mind and when I did I heard him cry like I have never heard him cry before and I knew. The crazy thing is I was driving my 5-year-old son to get some ice cream to celebrate him graduating kindergarten, so I couldn’t pull over. I was just so numb like I could have crashed with my kids in the car.”
Since the passing of the iconic rapper, fans and rappers from all over have paid tribute to the Queensbridge legend. Nas honored Prodigy by performing his iconic verse from “Shook Ones, Pt. II” in the Netherlands. Kendrick Lamar and Eminem spit some P lyrics on Peter Rosenberg’s Real Late broadcast.
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