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I'm taking this pretty hard. I loved his music, but most of all, he was only 3 years older than me. Big loss for the hip hop world.
 
yeah, his music was great, I was just entering Highschool when he was first coming out with some of his big hits "Now That We Found Love" I think I was in the 10th grade when that came out.
He was very positive.
If I had kids, and they liked Hip Hop music, he's one of a few that I would allow my kids to listen to, as well as Wil Smith, I wouldn't have a problem with my kids (If I had kids) to listen to either because both of them are very positive. There's a few other rappers that's like them, but these two stick out more in my mind now.
Anyways, very sad to hear this.
May he rest in peace and may God Be with his family and fans
 
Heavy D was truly one of those talents that if you couldn't enjoy him, there was probably little hope for you to enjoy hip-hop music at all. Kelley L. Carter has a great piece on him for MTV.com:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1674012/heavy-d-dead-career-impact.jhtml

I like that she mentions him in comparison to Drake and Diddy because you've had many fans doing the same thing as hip-hop's worst critics: They've tried to pigeonhole the genre into 'street manhood music' or gangsta rap by default, totally ignoring hip-hop's healthy history as party music--what it actually started as. This type of fan might have unchecked worship Tupac and Biggie at the expense of have merely tolerating LL Cool J's occasional odes to the ladies, writing off M.C. Hammer and Fresh Prince/Will Smith as corny distractions meant for White people, and subsequently marring Drake as 'baby turd soft'. These are individual taste critiques that just don't hold up as genre judgments.

Dwight Myers was only 'soft' around the middle. He certainly wasn't corny, and he could rhyme with the best of them, even as he preferred to avoid getting too vulgar. He represented hip-hop and mainstream R&B well, adding to the New Jack Swing sound. (Somewhat tangentially to that point about R&B--I hate that Janet Jackson's Design of a Decade: 1986-1996 used a version of "Alright" without Heavy D's memorable raps. I have subsequently hated all song versions that have cut them for CHR/AC play--as if that 30-75 seconds of rhyme time would have really made those listeners recoil. Lies! )
 
Well said, Nate...I was about 8 years old (I'm 31 now) when I first heard one of his first songs, "Gyrlz They Love Me". I can put him in the same class as Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie, as they made hardcore-sounding songs without the vulgarity. You can't make artists like Heavy (and the others from that Golden-age of hip-hop) anymore because the majority of today's mainstream artists lack the substance in their songs. I can never remember hearing anything negative about Heavy; he was an artist that appealed to damn-near everyone, and like you said...if you didn't like his music, you have no chance in liking hip-hop, period.

I was totally shocked to hear of his passing, and I thought that he was a few years older than he was. Then, over the weekend, we could have had another potential passing as well, in Erick Sermon (and he's had his share of personal issues over the years, including a failed suicide attempt). Thankfully, he's doing better.

RIP Heavy D
 
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