John Forté, a rapper and producer affiliated with the Fugees, has reportedly died. Whereas particulars are nonetheless growing, police within the Massachusetts city the place John Forté resided have confirmed the loss of life to an area information outlet.

Based on The Martha’a Winery’s Instances, John Forté, a resident of Chilmark, was a distinguished fixture among the many island’s music scene, and lived within the city for the previous 10 years along with his spouse and their two kids. A reason for loss of life was not shared by the outlet, and the household has but to make an official announcement.

A neighbor noticed Forté on his kitchen flooring and alerted native authorities, who arrived on the dwelling within the afternoon to seek out Forté unresponsive. It seems that he was the one individual dwelling when the incident came about.

Forté’s profession started when he was a younger man studying the violin, culminating in his enrollment in New Hampshire’s Phillips Exeter Academy. Forté later enrolled in New York College, dropping out to later work for the underground Hip-Hop label, Rawkus Information.

Forté grew to become aligned with the Fugees by means of Lauryn Hill within the early Nineties, and produced tracks and carried out on the trio’s award-winning 1996 album, The Rating. Forté continued his work alongside Wyclef Jean as a member of the Refugee Camp All-Stars manufacturing crew

In 2000, Forté was nabbed at Newark Worldwide Airport with a big quantity of liquid cocaine valued at as much as $1.4 million. Forté served eight years of a 14-year sentence after President George W. Bush commuted Forté’s sentence in 2008.

Forté resumed his music profession largely behind the scenes as a producer and composer, engaged on tunes for the Sundance Movie Pageant, the Brooklyn Nets, and the CBS documentary collection, Brooklyn DA.

Forté is survived by his spouse, Lara Fuller, and their two kids.

John Forté was 50.

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