Squeak, DJ and producer of hip-hop’s Pivot Gang, dead at 26

nypost.com:

Pitchfork.Windy City music outlet The Triibe reported that the artist often hailed as a “genius” in the rap community was involved in a fatal shooting on Monday evening.

The Chicago Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for confirmation of this report.Meanwhile, Squeak’s death follows the passing of fellow Pivot Gang member John Walt, 23, who was stabbed to death during a street fight on the West side of Chicago in 2017.

Squeak revealed in an interview the same year how he entered the professional music industry.“I had just gotten out of high school, and I just started getting in trouble and ended up on house arrest,” he told Elevator magazine in 2017. “So my brother FRSH Waters was just like ‘Aye bro, just go.