New Orleans, LA – Younger Greatness, finest identified for his Billboard Sizzling 100-charting single “Moolah,” handed away on Monday (October 29).
The Money Cash Information artist was shot and killed outdoors a Waffle Home in his hometown New Orleans, in keeping with reviews by The New Orleans Advocate and CBS affiliate WWL.
The New Orleans Police Division says the taking pictures passed off at roughly 1:35 a.m. native time. Greatness, whose actual title was Theodore Jones, was pronounced useless on the scene after ficers discovered the 34-year-old rapper laying on the road with a gunshot wound to the again.
Police are looking for two suspects in connection to the taking pictures. The suspects allegedly took Greatness’ automobile as nicely, however the car has since been discovered.
Though Greatness was a local New Orleans, he wasn’t a present resident the town. His mom, Jeanine Rose, advised NBC affiliate WDSU that he was on the town for a funeral.
Greatness reached the best heights his profession whereas signed to High quality Management Music, residence such artists as Migos and Lil Yachty. After releasing his tune “Moolah” by way of the label in 2015, it spent 9 weeks on the Sizzling 100 chart and peaked No. 85 in 2016. The monitor has over 30 million performs on YouTube as October 2018.
In 2017, Greatness departed High quality Management for a cope with Money Cash Information. In an interview with HipHopDX, he stated there was “no ailing will” between himself and his former QC bosses however defined his departure.
“Typically once you do enterprise, you could have completely different opinions in the best way we see issues and generally, issues aren’t meant to work,” he advised DX final yr. “God has his personal plan for you. I really feel like with that scenario, it wasn’t God’s plan for me.”