The musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was only 25 years old.
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She started her career as a model.
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“Chynna was deeply loved and will be sorely missed,” her family wrote in a statement.
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She was only 25 years old: rapper Chynna Rogers, known as Chynna, died on Wednesday. Her management confirmed this to “People”. What the musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died of is not known. “Chynna was deeply loved and will be sorely missed,” her family wrote in a statement.
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The rapper became known online with her songs “Selfie” (2013) and “Glen Coco” (2014) and released her first EP “I’m Not Here.” This Isn’t Happening ». In the US rapper A $ AP Yams († 26), who died from a drug overdose in 2015, she found a mentor and sponsor as a teenager.
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She fought against opiate addiction
Most recently, she released the EP “In Case I Die First” last December. Rogers had started her career as a model: At the age of 14, she signed a contract with the renowned agency Ford Models after she was discovered in a leisure park. Among other things, she was seen in a DKNY campaign in 2015.
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The rapper was open about her fight against drug addiction. In 2016 she discussed addiction to opiates on her mixtape «Ninety», which she published after three months of abstinence. In an interview with “Pitchfork” in 2018, she said that she had overcome her addiction: “I got to the point where I had to do something to continue to go on stage and do my job.” (kad)