According to the New York Daily News Hip-Hop mogul Chris Lighty died Thursday morning after he shot himself after an argument with his estranged wife at his Bronx apartment, sources told the Daily News.
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Here's what some of his closest colleagues and friends tweeted Today after hearing the news:
Chuck D
R I P Chris Lighty SMH to the mongrels that have made the BLACKmusic industry a depressing game to drag such good cats into a pit of bullsht
R.I.P chris lighty!! Chris is hip hop, a friend & a gr8 person! When I came in the game he acknowledged me ... http://m.tmi.me/wg22p
R.I.P CHRIS LIGHTY THE MAN THAT SAVED MY LIFE!!!
Black men if we don't come together n support one
another we're gonna continue to loose great men! R.I.P. Chris Lighty. We
love u..