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Hip-Hop and the City of ATL are mourning this morning at news of the untimely death of rapper Shawty Lo, who was identified in a fatal car crash this morning. He was 40 years old. I moved to Atlanta at a time where "Trap Muzik" was becoming prominent and when "Snap Music" was beginning to…

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