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The Roots bassist Leonard ‘Hub’ Hubbard dead at 62

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Philadelphia Inquirer. The musician officially passed away from multiple myeloma — a rare form of the blood cancer that he’d been diagnosed with 14 years ago — after being hospitalized on Wednesday.

Stephanie reported that her husband been in remission, but the cancer returned last month. Hubbard first joined The Roots in 1992, when the hip-hop collective was still called The Square Roots, and worked on every album from 1993′s “Organix”to “Game Theory” in 2006.Hubbard left the group in 2007 to become a solo composer, but would return for The Roots reunions over the years.Before he was hospitalized, Hubbard had been working on an album featuring artists like Jill Scott, Vernon Reid and Ben Harper, which was just completed last week.

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