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Atlanta rapper Carlos “Shawty Lo” Walker, a member of the rap group D4L whose “Laffy Taffy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005, died early Wednesday morning in a car crash in Fulton County, Georgia.
Shawty Lo’s manager Johnnie Cabbell used the rapper’s Twitter to confirm that the rapper died in the single-car accident.
The rapper rose to prominence in 2005 along with his D4L crew, short for “Down for Life,” with their hit “Laffy Taffy,” the chart-topping single that helped popularize the Atlanta-bred genre snap music.
For “Dey Know,” Shawty Lo was named Rookie of the Year at the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards, but the rapper would never release another album despite aligning with 50 Cent’s G-Unit label in 2011.
In 2013, Shawty Lo filmed a reality show called All My Babies’ Mamas that was scheduled to air on the Oxygen channel.
The controversial series ultimately never aired after critics panned the show’s premise, which focused on Shawty Lo and his 11 children with 10 women.