![]() ![]() It was only a few years later, in his early teens, that Elliott’s dancing moved him into some pretty big places. was dancing, and I was playing basketball.” We started talking and kicking it in seventh grade. “I used to see him around the neighborhood when I’d go to my aunt’s house when we was younger, but I never spoke to him. “I met Stack in junior high school, probably seventh grade,” Bynoe tells me. ![]() That’s when he first met the rapper Bynoe, who would later join Stack in the crew Riot Squad. By the time he was in seventh grade, Elliott was way into dancing. To make sense of why Rayquon Elliott’s clever, flashy, funny, and shockingly ahead-of-his-time music lives on more than ten years after he passed, you have to look at his very beginnings. ![]() While his full-length record still isn't here, his continued impact on hip-hop is as clear as day-if you know where to look. That came and went, and it appears that the full artistic statement we never got during Stack's life is still in limbo. Last year, his long-awaited debut album, The Rock's Star, was announced with a fall release date. He was a star in the making and we’ll never know what he could have achieved had his life not been cut short.Ī full decade after his death at 24, his legacy is still in flux. To casual listeners, if they knew him at all, he was familiar for his appearance on the Jim Jones/Lil Wayne collaboration “ Weatherman.”īut to die-hards, the type of person to scour the tracklist on the latest DJ Clue tape to determine who was in and who was out-and, even more, to the people in Far Rockaway-Stack was a revelation. Rayquon Elliott, best known to fans as Stack Bundles, hadn’t yet released an album. Murder was not unusual in Redfern-the New York Times described the development as being in the midst of “a private war.” But this killing would have resonance far beyond the building, and well past that sad morning. In the early morning hours of June 11, 2007, an up-and-coming rapper was shot and killed in the lobby of his building in the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens. “We took losses that never, ever happened in hip-hop history.” - Cau2Gs I’m the Nas, Shan, whatever you want to call me. ![]()
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