OG Maco– precise identify Benedict Chiajulam Ihesiba Jr.– died on December 26 after about 2 weeks on life help at Cedars-Sinai Medical Facility in Los Angeles.
As verified to AllHipHop by his every day supervisor, Poppa Perc, Maco handed away after experiencing a self-inflicted gunfire harm to the top. On Saturday (December 28), OG Maco’s family launched a declaration utilizing Instagram, grieving their monumental loss.
” With aching hearts, we share the heartbreaking info of the demise of our cherished Ben, acknowledged to the globe as OG Maco,” the article begins. “His life was an affidavit to energy, artistic pondering and limitless love. By way of his songs, curiosity, and steadfast spirit, he touched quite a few lives and left a long-lasting affect.
” Whereas we remorse this monumental loss, we moreover commemorate the exceptional life he lived– one that may actually stay to affect and increase others. Maco’s influence, each as a musician and as a person, will definitely proceed to be for all times engraved in our hearts.”
The family moreover opened up OG Maco’s straight messages to any individual that intends to share a reminiscence or get in contact with them. They completed the article by giving because of everyone that exposed their help for him.
Very first -responders have been contacted us to OG Maco’s house on the early morning of December 12 after a next-door neighbor listened to a gunfire.
” I assumed he was useless once I initially noticed him,” his supervisor knowledgeable AllHipHop on the time. “We needed to do with rebrand and reduce [new music] below a complete brand-new pen names. We require everyone’s petitions.”
The OG Maco group did its best to knock down the going down fatality reviews, nonetheless people lingered. Somebody composed, “This breaks my coronary heart lots. Might u the rest in paradise. Thanks for being my very first shut pal in Atlanta. For relying on my songs previous to any individual else and for the connection we shared with out the years. you’ll actually by no means ever be failed to recollect,” whereas a further claimed, “Calm down in tranquility brother, you are an precise story and chief within the online game, led the best way for an excessive amount of the sector.”
DJ Paul of three 6 Mafia eradicated his homage article when he was knowledgeable he was nonetheless energetic and later commented, “Wishing you nonetheless you are doing.” He has but to speak about OG Maco’s fatality.
