The rapper and producer suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism on Thursday.
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Riley, who broke out in 2010 with the single “Crush” and found success on TikTok with the 2020 club hit “Then Leave,” was doing a morning takeover at Urban One/Radio One in Houston when he fainted and was rushed to a nearby hospital. He died that same day of a pulmonary embolism.Riley’s manager, Tasha Felder, confirmed the news of his death with a statement on Instagram this morning.
“BeatKing has been the best part of the club for over a decade,” Felder wrote. “He has produced and worked with so many artists that his sound will forever live.”Outside of music, Riley was known for making and wearing t-shirts bearing funny catchphrases such as “Can’t Be Horny and Broke” and “Squirting is Cool But it Stank.”in 2022. “Even when I try to talk about some real stuff, I try to bring life to it. Kind of like what a comedian does on a stage. Real life things are funny too.
He brought this same philosophy to his parenting account on Instagram, Club God Parenting, where he would document life with his 12- and 13-year-old daughters. The girls were by his side when he died.“I have seen literally hundreds of BeatKing posts with regular people who took pictures with him or DJs and musicians who worked with him,” DJ General Mealz wrote on X. “That really shows me how long he had been hustling.
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