The story of late rap pioneer Heavy D will be chronicled in a documentary airing Sunday on Centric TV.

Twitter lit up overnight with false reports that legendary entertainer Ruby Dee, and not Heavy D, had died yesterday. Jeffrey Leavitt, representative for the 87-year-old stage and screen star, corrected the false reports on Wednesday. Dee’s rumored death apparently resulted from confusion between her name and that of Heavy D, the popular rapper who died […]

Heavy D Dead At 44, The Hip-Hop Community Reacts Get More: Music News Posted 13 hrs ago by MTV News in Music News “No words can describe the sadness I feel inside my heart. Hev was my biggest cheerleader, introduced me to the game and he Dwight Errington Meyers p/k/a Heavy D most importantly was […]

Rap legend Heavy D — one of the most influential rappers of the ’90s — died earlier today … TMZ has learned. Heavy D — real name Dwight Arrington Myers — was rushed to an L.A. hospital around noon today … and was pronounced dead at the hospital at 1 PM. He was 44 years […]