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Published November 7, 2023, 11:53 p.m. ET
G-funk rapper C-Knight, who was a member of the Long Beach-based hip-hop ensemble The Dove Shack, was 52 years old. Getty Images
G-Funk rapper C-Knight has died.
The musician, who was a member of the Long Beach-based hip-hop ensemble The Dove Shack, was 52 years old.
C-Knight, whose legal name is Arnez Blount, was taken off life support on Tuesday after being hospitalized on October 18 due to complications from diabetes.
The rapper’s father, George Lee Washington Blount Jr., told TMZ that his blood sugar levels reached dangerous levels and, despite dialysis, he suffered a stroke and cardiac arrest during treatment.
According to his father, C-Knight was placed on life support after doctors resuscitated him, but he was unresponsive and there were no signs of progress.
Still, the family remained hopeful and prayed “for a miracle” at the time of his death.
The Post has reached out to Blount’s camp for comment.
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On October 22, Dove Shack band member Bo-Roc wrote a heartfelt post on Instagram asking fans and friends to keep C-Knight in their prayers.
“I am literally begging everyone who sees this post to pray for my brother from another mother and one of my closest friends in the world, Arnez aka C Knight from the Dove Shack,” he wrote. “He is the founder of Dove Shack and the reason I had the opportunity to do #summertimeinthelbc for the world, so please send him positive energy and healing prayers.”
Dove Shack, consisting of the trio C-Knight, Bo-Roc and 2Scoops, took the stage when the group was featured on Warren G’s 1994 debut album Regulate…G Funk Era after the DJ recognized their talent.
C-Knight of The Dove Shack performs onstage during the Summertime in the LBC Festival on August 5, 2017 in Long Beach, California. Getty Images
“We grew up in the same neighborhood, we grew up together… along with Nate Dogg… and Snoop [Dogg] too,” C-Knight told Canadian Outlaw Radio. “I was discovered by Warren G during a rap battle. He had just done the song with Mista Grimm [“Indo Smoke”] …he said he liked the way I spoke, he liked what I spit out, and, s–, after that we were in the studio about four days later.”
Dove Shack released their own album “This Is The Shack” in 1996, which spawned the group’s biggest hit single “Summertime In The LBC” featuring Arnita Porter.
“We wrote that track in 15 minutes, man… it was hardly any effort,” he told Outlaw Radio. “It’s basically just about us reflecting on growing up in Long Beach…just the whole element of summer barbecues and things like that, having fun.”
Today, C-Knight and Dove Shack are credited with their enormous influence on the gangsta funk (G-Funk) movement that was prevalent in the 1990s.
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