{"id":137823,"date":"2025-01-26T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/walk-it-out-rapper-passes-away-at-43\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T10:57:53","slug":"walk-it-out-rapper-passes-away-at-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/walk-it-out-rapper-passes-away-at-43\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Walk It Out’ Rapper Passes Away at 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have some tragic information to report from the world of music.<\/p>\n

DJ Unk (whose actual identify was Anthony Leonard Platt) has handed away on the age of 43.<\/p>\n

News of the rapper\u2019s passing involves us courtesy of his spouse, Sherkita Long-Platt.<\/p>\n

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DJ Unk attends the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin\/Getty Images for BET)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DJ Unk\u2019s Cause of Death<\/h2>\n

\u201cPlease respect me and my family. I just lost my husband and my kids just lost their father,\u201d Sherkita wrote on Facebook Friday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur life will never be the same. I LOVE YOU ANTHONY FOREVER,\u201d her put up<\/a> concluded.<\/p>\n

Platt\u2019s reason for loss of life<\/a> has not been revealed, however the hip hop legend has been open about his lengthy battle with numerous well being points.<\/p>\n

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DJ Unk peforms onstage as Druski hosts first-ever \u00e2\u0080\u009cCoulda Fest\u00e2\u0080\u009d Comedy and Music Festival at State Farm Arena on September 07, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI had some medical issues going on from not eating the right food and that just come from when I stopped taking care of myself. I got to get healthy not just for my sake, but also for my kids and for my wife,\u201d Platt advised XXL in 2010 (by way of USA Today<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes from not exercising, from not eating right. Basically man, I work hard everyday. Everything I do every day I try to make something happen in my household,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI constantly be on the go, I constantly be on airplanes, in different weather and you know it just took a toll on me. It was stress.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear, at the moment, if Platt\u2019s passing was a results of these well being points.<\/p>\n

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DJ Unk attends the BET Awards 2023 at Microsoft Theater on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bennett Raglin\/Getty Images for BET)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Icon In His Field<\/h2>\n

Platt is greatest identified for his 2006 hit \u201cWalk It Out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The track rose to quantity 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and quantity two on the outlet\u2019s hip hop and R&B chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cWalk It Out\u201d made Unk a family identify amongst hip hop followers. A later remix featured verses by Outkast and Jim Jones.<\/p>\n

A follow-up single, \u201c2 Step,\u201d additionally carried out effectively on the charts.<\/p>\n

Unk continued to carry out dwell till his ultimate days, most just lately taking the stage on the Coulda Fest in his native Atlanta in September of final 12 months.<\/p>\n

Our ideas exit to Unk\u2019s family members throughout this enormously troublesome time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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