BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IT is suggested that many fans around the globe would be wearing their clothes backwards in bittersweet honour of Chris Kelly of the 1990s popular rap duo called Kris Kross, who reportedly died yesterday (May. 1) at an Atlanta hospital in the United States at age 34.
CNN has reported that area authorities are investigating his death as a possible drug overdose, as stated this morning by Fulton County Police Cpl. Kay Lester.
According to that media house, police said Kelly died “at an Atlanta hospital after he was found unresponsive at his home”.
CNN further reported that after paramedics had taken him to the hospital, a woman who identified herself as Kelly's friend told an investigator that he had taken a mixture of heroin and cocaine on Tuesday night, and that she took him home "to recover from his drug use", according to a police report.
Reportedly, the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said an autopsy is planned for today.
The media house highlighted that Kelly, together with Chris Smith, shot to stardom in 1992 with ‘Jump’, which spent eight weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 and that the duo opened for Michael Jackson that year on his Dangerous World Tour.
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“And their penchant for wearing their clothes backward was, at least for a time, widely emulated,” the CNN report stated.
Kelly and Smith were 13-year-olds when they were discovered in 1991 at an Atlanta mall by producer Jermaine Dupri.
“Going by the stage name Mac Daddy (with Smith known as Daddy Mac), the pair followed up their smash ‘Jump’ with a single called ‘Warm It Up’.
Together, the songs pushed their debut album, ‘Totally Krossed Out’, to multiplatinum status, which was followed by ‘Da Bomb’ in 1993.
“But the album failed to find the following of the duo's debut, in large part because the boys had hit puberty and they were marketed with a tougher image.
“Their career never again reached the heights of their debut, but they continued to make music.
In 1996, the duo released the album ‘Young, Rich and Dangerous’,” CNN stated.
SKNVibes also found out that the former Kris Kross pair reunited for one night in February this year for a 20th anniversary party for Dupri's So So Def Label.
“How high? Real high 'cause I'm just so fly A young lovable, hugable type of guy And everything is to the back with a little slack 'Cause inside-out is wiggity, wiggity, wiggity wack.”
This is one of the lyrical lines from the hit ‘Jump’ that were ‘spitted’ by the late Chris Kelly in his signature quick-pace rapping style.
Editor-in-Chief of the Hip Hop site Global Grind, Michael Skolnik is quoted as saying, "I'm wearing my clothes to work backwards tomorrow,” when he learned of Kelly’s death.
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