{"id":2419,"date":"2022-12-13T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T01:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/12\/13\/grand-daddy-i-u-cold-chillin-mc-dead-at-54\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:11:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T01:11:34","slug":"grand-daddy-i-u-cold-chillin-mc-dead-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/12\/13\/grand-daddy-i-u-cold-chillin-mc-dead-at-54\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>GRAND DADDY I.U.<\/strong><strong>COLD CHILLIN&#8217; MC DEAD AT 54<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/b5\/4by3\/2022\/12\/13\/b5947694848a4ba0a0428c58929fea76_md.png\" alt=\"Grand Daddy I.U.\"\/><\/figure><p><a><\/a><\/p><p><a>Getty<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Grand Daddy I.U.<\/strong>, a prominent member of early rap label Cold Chillin&#8217; Records, has died at the age of 54 &#8230; TMZ Hip Hop has learned.<\/p><p>Legendary hip hop producer&nbsp;<strong>Pete Rock<\/strong>, a longtime advocate for GDIU&#8217;s skills as a lyricist, revealed to his followers the Queens-born rapper died peacefully in his sleep.<\/p><p>In the late 80s, GDIU was signed on Cold Chillin&#8217; along with\u00a0<strong>Big Daddy Kane<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Kool G Rap<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Roxanne Shant\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Biz Markie<\/strong>, the latter rap legend having a huge part in shaping his career &#8230; pushing his demo to the label and even producing every song on GDIU&#8217;s first album: 1990&#8217;s &#8220;Smooth Assassin.&#8221;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Grand Daddy I.U. - Something New (Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88Z1RqwvK8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>The album spawned a pair of Billboard rap hits in the singles &#8220;Something New&#8221; and &#8220;Sugar Free&#8221; &#8230; helping solidify the genre on the charts long before the days of streaming and Super Bowl-sized endorsements for rappers.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/83\/4by3\/2022\/12\/13\/8315040720fa450b8c6d3688aa709742_md.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><p><a><\/a><\/p><p>We reached out to GDIU&#8217;s manager for further details &#8230; we&#8217;ll let you know when we hear back.<\/p><p>May he RIP.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Grand Daddy I.U., a prominent member of early rap label Cold Chillin&#8217; Records, has died at the age of 54 &#8230; TMZ Hip Hop has learned. Legendary hip hop producer&nbsp;Pete Rock, a longtime advocate for GDIU&#8217;s skills as a lyricist, revealed to his followers the Queens-born rapper died peacefully in his sleep. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}