Jasun Wardlaw
(April 6, 1973 – October 22, 2003) better known by his stage name Half a Mill, was a
Brooklyn
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-based
American
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rapper
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Career
Half a Mill was considered an underground rapper in the early 1990s. His mainstream breakthrough came in 1997 when he scored a guest spot on supergroup
The Firm
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History
In 1979, Anna Bens ...
's only release, ''
The Album''.
Personal life and death
Wardlaw was shot and killed in Brooklyn's Albany Projects on October 22, 2003. His body was found by police inside his apartment.
He left behind a son, Jasun Jabbar Wardlaw Jr., who is a rapper and actor.
Half a Mill was the subject of the 2010 full-length documentary ''
Player Hating: A Love Story'' by filmmaker
Maggie Hadleigh-West
Maggie Hadleigh-West (born October 1, 1958) is an American filmmaker and activist.
Early life and education
Hadleigh-West was born in Fairbanks, Alaska to parents; Katherine Talbot a legal secretary and Frederick Hadleigh West a college profess ...
.
Discography
See also
*
List of murdered hip hop musicians
This is a list of rappers and hip hop musicians murdered since 1987.
Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of 51.5% of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of age. Hip hop has a ...
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1973 births
African-American male rappers
Deaths by firearm in Brooklyn
Rappers from Brooklyn
Underground rappers
2003 deaths
Gangsta rappers
Murdered African-American people
East Coast hip hop musicians
American murder victims
20th-century American male musicians
2003 murders in the United States
20th-century African-American musicians
21st-century African-American people
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