New York Rapper Hurricane G, identified for songs together with “El Barrio” and “Underground Lockdown,” has died after a battle with lung most cancers.

Fellow rapper Erick Sermon, who shares a daughter with G, confirmed her dying Sunday in an announcement posted on Instagram. G, whose actual identify was Gloria Rodriguez, rose to prominence within the Nineteen Nineties after collaborating with rapper Redman on tracks reminiscent of “Tonight’s da Night time” and “We Run N.Y.,” in keeping with the Every day Beast.

“My coronary heart is hardened right now,” Sermon wrote on Instagram. “Considered one of my good mates…. my oldest daughters mom handed away right now #HURRICANEGLORIA was additionally a legend in her personal proper within the Hiphop neighborhood. One of many first puertorican feminine rappers She rapped with me. …

“She paved the way in which … she was in all of the Hiphop magazines with all the highest females on the time … She can be missed all all over the world. I can’t consider this. Pray for us. Stunning blessings. She was a ravishing particular person an exquisite mom as actual as they arrive. We love u G.”

In Might, Hurricane G and Sermon’s daughter Lexus revealed on Fb that her mom had been identified with Stage 4 lung most cancers: “I dont know what number of of you perceive what meaning however even after 30 years of life Im nonetheless attempting to course of it myself,” she wrote. “I’ve by no means cried a lot in my life I’ve by no means felt so disconnected from actuality in my life. But my mother nonetheless manages to be the one to carry it collectively and say ‘dont fear child everythings gonna be alright.’”

G was identified for her means to rap in each English and Spanish. When recording and performing in Spanish, G would typically rap within the Nuyorican dialect, representing New York Metropolis’s Puerto Rican neighborhood, in keeping with her MySpace biography.

The artist’s music profession took off when she signed with H.O.L.A. Recordings, a New York-based label whose acronym stands for Residence of Latino Artists. By H.O.L.A., G launched her debut studio album, “All Lady,” in September 1997. The document featured the tracks “El Barrio” and “Underground Lockdown,” in addition to “Mama” and “Boriqua Mami.”

A promising newcomer on the New York leisure scene, G grew to become the primary feminine member of the East Coast hip-hop collective known as the Def Squad, which additionally included Sermon of EPMD, Redman and Keith Murray, in keeping with G’s MySpace bio.

Amongst those that paid tribute to G on social media was music producer Domingo Padilla, who labored with G on “All Lady” and remembered the emcee as “a extremely sort hearted humorous particular person,” including, “however when she was mad keep out her means…LOL.”

“We recorded that album in my residence in Ozone Park Queens on a Tascam 388 and I took the entire reel machine to 78/88 studios and dumped the music to 2 inch reels then blended it with Rahsaan Cus Stephens in Distinctive and Chung King studios,” Padilla wrote on Fb.

“I noticed her make a well-known radio persona cry in a studio and after I drove Gloria residence we argued about why she did that and he or she saved it actual with me she mentioned ‘Domingo that b— don’t idiot me she is a 2 face.’ Gonna miss chatting with her on the telephone and [hearing] her say “Domingo you bought that funky a— fireplace for me or what motherf—‘ … R.I.P Gloria ‘Hurricane G’ Rodriguez.”