A 1990s rapper is dead at age 51.
Young Bleed, best known for his work with Master P’s No Limit Records, died Saturday, according to his eldest son Ty’Gee Ramon Clifton. The cause of death was a brain aneurysm, Clifton said.
“Rip to the biggest legend I kno…. Young bleed!” Clifton said on Instagram. “Love u Dad so much and will definitely miss u… but imma carry the torch from here I got u.”
“I’m glad he went out in style!” Clifton added.
The New York Post reports Young Bleed spent a week in a Las Vegas hospital ICU before he died. The hip-hop star, who had been taking medicine for high blood pressure, collapsed during an afterparty for a CashMoney vs. NoLimit Verzuz concert on Oct. 25; internal bleeding reportedly led to the aneurysm.
Clifton said a GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay for his father’s s medical expenses and funeral services.
“Let’s keep his legacy alive,” Clifton said.
Young Bleed, whose real name was Glenn Clifton Jr., was a Louisiana native who first emerged on the hip-hop scene in 1995 with the rap group Concentration Camp alongside C-Loc, Max Minelli, J-Von and Chris Hamilton. Two years later Young Bleed scored a hit with “How Ya Do Dat,” featuring C-Loc.
Master P remixed “How Ya Do Dat” that same year for the soundtrack to his film “I’m Bout It.” The song helped Young Bleed’s debut album, “My Balls and My Word,” reach No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip Hop charts in 1998.
Master P, best known for the 1997 hit “Make ‘Em Say Uhh!” and work with No Limit artists like Mystikal and Snoop Dogg, helped Young Bleed sign a deal with Priority Records. Young Bleed released eight additional albums in his career, most recently performing with Master P on the No Limit Soldiers Reunion tour earlier this year.
“For years I didn’t like my voice,” Young Bleed said in a 2019 interview. “I started recording about eleven years old. I started writing at nine, I had a poetry teacher – my mother starting reading me Dr. Seuss since before I was born, by the time I was about eight months to a year or somethin’ she had taught me to read Dr. Seuss. I had a uncle that was a drummer, so I’ve been playing congas and bongos and sets since I was four and five years old, just sittin’ on his lap. Later in life Rakim would say r.a.p. stands for ‘rhythm and poetry,’ so I was born that way.”
“…When I look back at it, we all learn from each other, bits and pieces, but I always had my own style – that’s what made me seem so odd to myself, because I wanted to sound like the guys on the radio. Rakim bein’ my favorite rapper of all time and LL, those kind of guys, by the time I’d think I got it they would drop an album and it’d be a million more miles away from me,” he added. “I had to learn my lane, my place in time, and start to get comfortable in that zone. It’s more like a people thing – my family, from the community, the school, and anybody that inspired me to keep goin’ on.”
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