Rap legend Heavy D, whose real name was Dwight Arrington Myers, one of the most influential rappers of the 1990's, died earlier today. He was 44 years old.
His massive musical hits included Is It Good To You, The Overweight Lovers In The House, Big Daddy, and my personal favorite, Now That We Found Love. He also wrote and performed the theme songs for In Living Color, MADtv, and The Tracy Morgan Show. Drawing on a promising acting career he'd made appearances in brief movie and television roles including Life, The Cider House Rules, Boston Public, Living Single, Bones, Law & Order: SVU, and most recently, Tower Heist.
As Kelley L. Carter reported for MTV, "Heavy D was the big guy who could move. His size never stopped him. He moved in ways
that intimidated the slimmest dude in the crowd.
He was smooth, dapper and celebrated the around-the-way-girl through song;
his music helped soundtrack 10th-grade dances near and far, and his colorful,
danceable and at times sensitive brand of hip-hop clearly proved to be wildly
influential to new-millennium household names like Diddy or Drake. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who came up after Heavy D that
doesn't cite him as an influence — and if they didn't say it out loud, their
showmanship certainly was a giveaway."
Heavy was on the list to be my ninth husband. He will be missed.
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