Yahoo! Music, Sep 27, 2001 4:00 pm PDT
(9/27/01, 4 p.m. ET) - New Orleans-based rapper Juvenile is currently on his Set It Off tour promoting his new album, Project English, and his red hot new single, "Set It Off," but on Tuesday morning (September 25) the rapper's close friend Remalas Gray, 19, was found dead in his Oklahoma City hotel room. Gray had been traveling with Juvenile on the tour, and his body was discovered by Juvenile's brother Kenneth Landix Jr. In a statement, Juvenile's manager Aubrey Francis listed Gray's cause of death as a diabetic seizure, and added, "Juvenile is totally devastated."
Juvenile's latest album is currently Number 33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The set has sold more than 508,000 copies, according to Soundscan. Juvenile's 1998 release, 400 Degreez, has sold more than 4 million copies, and his 1999 follow-up, Tha G Code, has been certified platinum.
--Yves Salomon, New York
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