We are always sadden by news of celebrities passing that played a part in our child hood memories. Chris Kelly better known as “Mac Daddy” from the hip hop duo Kris Kross passed away earlier today at the age of 34. An autopsy is rescheduled for tomorrow, however, a rep with the Fulton County Police Department tells CSB Atlanta that is appears he died from a drug overdose. A report tells us he had taken a mixture of heroin and cocaine the night before and his mother Donna had taken him home recover.
hmmm…thats sounds like the right thing to do..Im unsure about that one.
Greg Street of V-103 was close friends with Chris and broke the news via twitter:
Around 7:45 I received a phone call from his cousin saying they had found Kelly at the house just 20 minutes earlier and he was unresponsive. I just received confirmation that he has passed.
Meanwhile, Akini Jeffrey, producer of 94.5′s Streetz Morning Grind describes what may have been Chris Kelly’s last phone conversation, early that morning:
I was extremely shocked to hear of his passing because I actually called him this morning at the radio station around 7:52am. Basically, I was doing show prep and came across a blog site that had his birthday posted as today. I was trying to remember if that was correct because I remembered it being August 11.
I just randomly called him to get him on the air to see if it was true and wish him a happy birthday, and he answered the phone. You can tell there was a lot going on in the background. Chris said to someone, “It’s Akini from the radio station, baby”. He also went on the apologize to me for not showing up to a radio interview that I had him scheduled for back February for the So So Def reunion.
Chris also stated “Tell everybody in Atl I said what’s up.”
