DJ Unk Dies: Atlanta Rapper Who Had Hits With ‘Walk It Out’ & ‘2 Step’ Was 42
deadline.comDJ Unk, the Atlanta rapper who had a Top 10 pop single with “Walk It Out” in 2006 and followed with the R&B hit “2 Step,” died Friday.
He was 42. His wife Sherkita Long-Platt posted the news on social media but did not provide a cause or place of death. “Please respect me and my family,” she wrote on Facebook. “I just lost my husband and my kids just lost their father.
Our life will never be the same. I LOVE YOU ANTHONY FOREVER.” Born on November 28, 1982, in the Georgia capital, DJ Unk (real name Anthony Platt) broken into the music game as part of the Atlanta-based Southern Style DJs.
He later signed with local label Big Oomp and recorded his debut Beat’n Down Yo Block!, which became the label’s first album to be distributed under a then-new deal with Koch Records.
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