Magnolia Shorty, American rapper, was shot.during a drive by shooting she was 28

 Magnolia Shorty, born Renetta Lowe, was an American rapper in the New Orleans-based bounce music scene was shot.during a drive by shooting she was 28.^[1] She and Ms. Tee (Trishell Williams) were the first women signed to Cash Money Records.^[2] Her 1997 debut album Monkey on the Dick (often stylized Monkey On Tha D$ck) is considered a bounce classic, and she "was already considered a legend of bounce music" at the time of her death.^[2] Offbeat said the album exemplifies "the eccentric New Orleans elements of sexuality, comedy and hard edged dance rhythms."^[3] In his 2007 book Triksta, Nik Cohn credits Magnolia Shorty with his own discovery of bounce, and the third chapter of that book is named after her debut album.^[4]

(1982 – December 20, 2010)


Magnolia Shorty was discovered by Birdman.^[5][6] She got her nickname from Soulja Slim, also known as Magnolia Slim, because both had grown up in New Orleans' dangerous Magnolia Projects.^[7] Nicknamed "Queen of Bounce," she collaborated with many Cash Money artists beginning in the 1990s, including Juvenile and Hot Boys.^[4] She was first featured on Juvenile's 1997 song "3rd Ward Solja."^[8] In 2009 she appeared at the SXSW music festival^[9] and won Best Bounce Song at the Underground Hip-Hop Awards in New Orleans.^[2] She was a member of Lil Wayne's Cash Money crew in the early 1990s, and she was collaborating as well as working on her second album on the Cash Money/Young Money label in 2010.^[10]


She was shot and killed in a car with Jerome Hampton in a double homicide in New Orleans.^[11][12] Police described the crime as a drive-by shooting.^[13]

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