Rapper Lil Snupe dies at 18

Credit: All Hip Hop

Rising rapper Lil Snupe, who recently signed to Meek Mill's Dream Chasers label, was shot and killed early Thursday morning (June 20) in Winnfield, La.

Police say the 18-year-old rapper, real name Addarren Ross, was killed around 4:00 a.m. at the Maplewood Apartments in Winnfield, suffering two gunshot wounds. A suspect has been identified but no further information has been provided.

Additional details via Billboard:

Winnfield (pop. 4,840) is located about an hour north of Alexandria in the heart of the state. It's not immediately known why Snupe was in the small town. Sources tell Billboard the artist may have been living in Baton Rouge while some previous articles written about the young rapper have listed Jonesboro, La., about 80 miles east of Shreveport, as his hometown.

In freestyle raps posted online, Snupe has name-dropped "225" -- the Baton Rouge area code.

Meek Mill signed Snupe to his Dream Chasers label last year after listening to the rapper's mixtape for 20 minutes. "He was in a van, they was finna pull off. And I went and knocked on the van, on the window," Snupe told MTV News in February. "They let the window down, grabbed the mixtape and it was like 10 minutes later, 20 minutes later they called me."

Meek corroborated the story, telling MTV News, "He was spittin' so much pain, he's from the south with a flow like an east coast guy."

Snupe's last tweet was a poignant shoutout to his home state: "i Hold it Down 4 Louisiana."