DJ Unk's Big Oomp Records label and his wife, Sherkita Long-Platt, revealed he died on Jan. 24 Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Rapper DJ Unk, who was best known for the bouncy early-2000s crunk hit “Walk It Out,” has died. The musician’s wife Sherkita Long-Platt announced his death Friday morning on Facebook.

A time of pain': Koo Jun-yup shares emotional tribute to late wife Barbie Hsu, slams 'cruel people' spreading rumors Singer and DJ Koo Jun-yup delivers late wife Barbie Hsu's ashes to Taiwan Singer ...

Korea's theater industry is booming. Experts say it won't last. Park Youn-jae becomes first Korean danseur to win Prix de Lausanne's young talent award Taiwanese actor Barbie Hsu, wife of DJ Koo, dies ...

Donovan Shears, a DJ who sent a random text message as a joke in 1998, ended up meeting his future wife, Kirsty. In 1998, Donovan Shears, an 18-year-old DJ, made a light-hearted decision to send ...

Rapper DJ Unk died of a heart attack, his wife has revealed days after his death at age 43. The attack killed him as he slept, his wife, Sherkita Long-Platt, told TMZ. Long-Platt noted that her ...

DJ Unk's wife has revealed his cause of death. On Sunday, the rapper's widow, Sherkita Long-Platt, spoke to TMZ and explained that the Atlanta legend died in his sleep at age 43 after going ...

NBA and Chicago Bulls legend Dennis Rodman's ex-wife, Michelle Rodman, gave a shoutout to their son, DJ Rodman, on Saturday. The 23-year-old plays for the Maine Celtics in the G League ...

DJ Unk, the Atlanta MC known for his early 2000s hits including “Walk It Out” and “2 Step," died after suffering a cardiac arrest this week, according to his wife. Two days after the artist ...

South Korean musician DJ Koo, husband of the late Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, announced that all of his wife’s assets would be entrusted to her mother following her passing at age 49. Taiwanese ...

"I am now in an indescribable state of sorrow and pain… I have no strength to say anything and do not want to say anything," the 55-year-old South Korean DJ wrote. Barbie died on Feb 2 at the ...

🔥 @dj_rodman," the caption read. "Yuppppppp," she wrote followed by five heart-eyed emojis. Dennis Rodman's ex-wife and DJ's mom Michelle Rodman also shared a graphic surrounding DJ's performance.