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Rapper Chino XL Died by Suicide, Family Says in Statement

The family of Chino XL has announced that the rapper died by suicide: "in honor of Suicide Awareness Month, we decided to share this truth."

“With the most profound sadness imaginable, we share the news that our beloved father decided to end his own life,” his family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s office lists his official cause of death as asphyxia as a result of ligature hanging,” the statement continued. “I have been on this planet for several decades, and I have moved in some pretty radical circles, but personally, I cannot recall meeting a melanated architect in my whole life,” Barbosa told Rolling Stone at the time.

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