Craig Mack, the 1990s artist who was signed to the disgraced Bad Boy founder Diddy, may have died of HIV:AIDS according to a new Rolling Stones article, Media Take Out has learned.
Craig Mack, a legendary hip hop artist, 47, died on March 12, 2018, due to heart failure at a hospital near his home at Walterboro, South Carolina.
According to his family and friends, he was ill for some time before his death and was prepared for a grim outcome. Mack was apparently suffering from heart failure, having developed shortness of breath from around six months before his death when, according to rapper Erick Sermon, he called his friends to bid farewell.
But Rolling Stone just dropped a bombshell. In a new report they wrote, “While Mack’s family honored his wishes and repeated his assertion that he had congestive heart failure, Mack’s cause of death was HIV/AIDS, according to his death certificate, and he had refused to seek treatment.“
The most common way for men to acquire HIV/AIDS is through homos**ual contact, or intravenous drug use. While it is rare for men to contract the disease thorough heterosexual contact, it is possible.
There’s still a huge stigma against men who die from HIV/AIDS – which is still a major death factor among Black men who refuse treatment. Media Take Out can confirm that at least 5 prominent Black male celebrities, who passed from HIV/AIDS. In each of those cases, their family reported the celebrity’s cause of death to the media as a “stoke” “natural causes” or “heart failure,” when the true cause of death was an untreated HIV/AIDS.
But the news gets worse. The news outlet added that Craig’s funeral and resting place were not what you’d expect for an international superstar, “There were no extravagant funeral plans — Mack wished for no fuss and to be buried on [a South Carolina] compound. The day after his death, church members lowered his plain gray coffin into a grave they dug …. “Brother J. Craig Mack” his headstone reads to this day.“
Craig Mack’s life seemed to spiral out of control, after he met and had a later fallout with disgraced hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs has been accused of engaging in s**ually abusive relationships with men and women.
Diddy and his legal team haven denied all accusations against him.