Atlanta icon DJ Nabs has known as out DJ Vlad and VLAD TV for the best way by which Younger Dro‘s current interview about Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly was introduced.
A central theme of Dro’s interview on the platform was the Hustle Gang rapper’s private relationship with habit. After revealing that he started smoking hashish on the age of 12, Younger Dro was requested about his friendship with Kris Kross rapper Chris Smith.
“Me and Chris Smith, we was very cool,” the “Shoulder Lean” rapper mentioned. “That’s the place my inspiration got here from. I seen how shawty had all the ladies, he had the garments. After which I get house, this dude on TV, on the radio. I used to be like, ‘I gotta do that.’”
From there, the interview pivoted to Dro’s relationship with the favored teen group’s different rapper, Chris Kelly, who died in 2013 of an unintentional overdose on the age of 34. An post-mortem later revealed the previous youngster star had a mix of heroin, cocaine, ethanol and hydrocodone, and alprazolam in his system.
Younger Dro went on to elucidate that he and Kelly bumped into one another on multiple event whereas battling habit. “We was in our habit collectively,” Dro mentioned. “Earlier than he died, we was getting excessive in a membership. My brother really had a membership in Atlanta, and I seen him on the membership and he was doing his factor, I used to be doing my factor. I used to be excessive as a goddamn kite, he was too.
“And sooner or later, we really went to jail collectively,” he continued. “I seen him at Rice Road. And we sitting down, he drunk as fuck, I’m fucked up. And he seen me and he was like, “D’Juan?’ And I’m like, ‘I used to be sitting right here ready so that you can say some shit. Each of us don’t wanna be right here.’ However I seen him earlier than he handed.”
So So Def affiliate and Atlanta radio royalty DJ Nabs, who labored intently with Kris Kross all through their profession, took objection to the usage of Chris Kelly’s identify getting used within the headline to advertise Dro’s interview. He voiced his disappointment in an Instagram put up, calling DJ Vlad to job for the choice.
“This story was cool and all that…ain’t no secret what Chris was going through,” Nabs wrote. “However when you individuals wanna know who Chris Kelly was and his true story, yall want to come back to his family and friends. This click on bait shit is wack. And @1youngdro is effectively revered by me and mine simply to be clear however @vladtv Let’s speak.”
Whereas Chris Kelly’s habit wasn’t essentially a matter of public data previous to him passing, it was no secret to his household. On the time of his demise, TMZ reported that his mom, Donna Kelly Pratte, had instructed authorities that her son had taken a mix of cocaine and heroin — generally often called a speedball — the evening earlier than he was discovered unresponsive at house.
Pratte reportedly instructed authorities that she had introduced her son house to sober up and that this was not the primary time she’d needed to give him the sort of help.
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“Donna instructed cops Kelly had felt nauseous all morning earlier than passing out,” TMZ reported. “In response to the report, Kelly’s mom and Kelly’s uncle each instructed investigators the rapper had an ‘intensive historical past of drug use.’”
Following his demise, Donna Kelly Pratte went on to situation a joint assertion with So So Def founder Jermaine Dupri, who famously found Chris Smith and Chris Kelly at Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall after they have been simply 13.
“It’s with deep unhappiness that we announce that our beloved Chris Kelly has handed away on Could 1. To tens of millions of followers worldwide, he was the trendsetting, backwards pants-wearing one-half of Kris Kross who cherished making music,” the assertion learn. “However to us, he was simply Chris—the type, beneficiant and fun-loving lifetime of the get together.
“Although he was solely with us a short while, we really feel blessed to have been capable of share some unbelievable moments with him. His legacy will reside on by means of his music, and we are going to ceaselessly love him.”
