Word has been rolling in from friends and supporters all day that Disco D committed suicide this morning.
The ghetto-tech pioneer, DJ, producer, and entrepreneur had seemed to be on a roll lately, helming tracks for Trick Daddy, turning types onto Brazilian emcees, and even coordinating the domestic import of a clear form of rolling papers. But from the comments on D’s MySpace, which has become an informal gathering place for tributes, no one saw this coming.
JTL
This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2007.