UK rapper and cannabis activist Black The Ripper has died aged 32. The musician, real name was Dean West, shot to fame in the early noughties with his mixtapes including Holla Black and Afro Samurai.
Over recent years the star had campaigned for the legalisation of cannabis in the UK. Currently, his cause of death is unknown.
He infamously "hotboxed" the London Eye and once shared a video clip on social media showing him smoking a cannabis joint in a supermarket.
2016 saw him post the clip on his Dank of England account, a pro-cannabis group which sold a range of merchandise. In 2015, West and his fans hired a pod on the London Eye and smoked cannabis inside – amusing tourists.
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