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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 41929" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/roddy-ricch.jpeg?w=1024&amp;h=437&amp;crop=1" alt="roddy ricch something in the water" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageHip-hop fans have been through a lot in the last few years. There hasn’t been a single year in the past half-decade that hasn’t seen the death of one of rap’s most prominent rising stars. In 2019, Nipsey Hussle was <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/nipsey-hussle-dead-33-shot-marathon-store/" target="_blank">shot and killed</a> in front of his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles. Later that same year, Juice WRLD <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/juice-wrld-dead-21-seizure-midway-airport/" target="_blank">overdosed coming off a flight</a> at Midway International Airport in Chicago. More recently, Drakeo The Ruler was <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/drakeo-the-ruler-dead-28/" target="_blank">stabbed to death backstage</a> during Once Upon A Time in LA Festival, and Lil Keed <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/ysl-lil-keed-dead-24/" target="_blank">died of apparent kidney failure</a> earlier this year.Last night, during his set at <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/something-in-the-water-festival-2022-preview-pharrell/" target="_blank">Something In The Water Festival</a>, Compton rapper <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/roddy-ricch-fck-nypd-hot-97-summer-jam/" target="_blank">Roddy Ricch</a> paid homage to these artists and more with a tender performance of his breakout hit “Die Young.” Images of his fallen peers and contemporaries flashed behind him as he crooned the all-too-fitting lyrics of his song’s chorus: “Tell me, why the legends always gotta die quick?”Roddy was at least partly associated with many of the rappers to whom he paid homage Friday night; he won a Grammy with Nipsey Hussle for their song “Racks In The Middle,” while Keed was a member of YSL Records, a frequent Roddy collaborator via <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/gunna-too-easy-remix-video-future-roddy-ricch/" target="_blank">Gunna</a> and Young Thug. Roddy <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/roddy-ricch-love-gunnna-calls-release-prison/" target="_blank">shouted out Gunna on Instagram</a>, calling for his release from Fulton County jail as he awaits trial on racketeering charges with the rest of the YSL crew.Watch Roddy’s tender performance of “Die Young” above.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/roddy-ricch-something-in-the-water-festival-performance/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

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