Chynna Rogers, Rapper And Model, Dead At 25

Chynna Rogers, Rapper And Model, Dead At 25




Chynna Rogers, a rising rapper out of Philadelphia with ties to Kehlani, A$AP Mob, and more, died on April 8, outlets are reporting. She was 25. A cause of death hasn't been revealed yet.


Rogers began her career as a model at the age of 14. Each year later, she became close with A$AP Yams of the A$AP Mob right after asking to be his intern on Twitter. "I wanted to A&R and I was inspired by the way [A$AP Yams] went about molding Rocky's career," Rogers told Billboard in 2017.


Shortly soon after, she started to work on music, encouraged by A$AP Yams. One of her first viral big hits was 2013's "Selfie," where she dizzyingly slipped bars into breathless spaces. She dropped the heavy-handed "Glen Coco" in 2014 and followed it up with the release of the I'm Not Here. This Isn't Happening EP in 2015.


Over the years, lose been building her brand with releases like Ninety (2016), Music 2 Perish 2 (2017), and, most recently, In Case I Perish First (2019), while racking up tons of industry companions like Kehlani, Vince Staples, and more.


Rogers spoken about dealing with opiate addiction in her music. On her 2016 project Ninety, she rapped, "Demons dancing on me like I have been feening / Hard to believe I have been 90 days tidy In a 2018 interview with Pitchfork, she spoken about her past substance abuse issues prior to getting out of rehab. "It got to the point where I had to take something just have the ability to get on stage and do my job," she mentioned. "I didn't like that. That was taking it also far because it helps in avoiding being fun and begins being because you need to, and that's once you have to chill."


In another earlier interview with VibeRogers opened up about how she managed to get over her addiction. "It was hard," she mentioned. "I had to go away for a minute and I did a detox, nevertheless it was a matter of having a really good support system of family member and friends."


Fans, companions, and collaborators around the world took to social media to pay respects to Rogers right after her death.









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