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.
C-Knight, whose legal name is Arnez Blount, was taken off life support on Tuesday after he was hospitalized on Oct. 18 due to complications from diabetes.
The rapper’s father, George Lee Washington Blount Jr., told TMZ that his blood sugar reached dangerous levels and despite receiving dialysis, he suffered a stroke during the treatment and went into cardiac arrest.
According to his father, C-Knight was placed on life support after being resuscitated by doctors but he remained unresponsive and there were no signs of progress.
Still the family remained hopeful and were “praying for a miracle at the time of his death.
The Post has reached out to Blount’s camp for comment.
On Oct. 22, Dove Shack group band member Bo-Roc wrote a heartfelt post on Instagram asking fans and friends to keep C-Knight in their prayers.
“I’m literally begging all who see’s this post to pray for my brother from another mother and one of my closest friends in the world Arnez a.k.a C Knight from the Dove Shack,” he wrote. “He’s the founder of the Dove Shack and the reason I had the opportunity to make #summertimeinthelbc for the world so please please send him positive energy and healing prayers.”
Dove Shack, which was made up of the trio of C-Knight, Bo-Roc and 2Scoops, burst onto the scene when the group was featured on Warren G’s debut album “Regulate… G Funk Era” in 1994 after the DJ recognized their talent.
“We grew up in the same neighborhood, we grew up around each other … along with Nate Dogg … and Snoop [Dogg] too,” C-Knight said to Canada’s Outlaw Radio. “I was discovered by Warren G during a rap battle. He had just did the song with Mista Grimm [“Indo Smoke”] … he said he liked the way I was speaking, he liked what I was spittin’ and, s—, we was in the studio about four days later after that.”
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 like low effort,” he told Outlaw Radio. “It’s basically just us reflecting on our growing up in Long Beach … just that whole element of having summer barbecues and things like that, having fun.”
Today C-Knight and Dove Shack are credited for their monumental influence on the gangsta funk (G-Funk) movement that was prevalent in the 1990s.
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