Akon's Rapper Dolla Fortells His Own Death In Eerie Freestyle Rap

On Monday May 18th, 2009 at approximately 3:15PM, Hip Hop lost yet another one of its prominent up and coming talents from Atlanta, GA. Dolla, born Roderick Anthony Burton II, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Beverly Center Mall in Los Angeles, California.

At press time someone without the authority to speak on behalf of the family jumped the gun (NPI) and said things that were not correct, so the family issued their 'Official' statement. Read below:

Official Statement From The Family of Roderick Anthony Burton II

"First and foremost we, the Burton family would like to thank everyone for all their kind thoughts and prayers during these trying times.

Most recently, the Burton family was made aware that there have been numerous false claims of information floating around the net and also reported in reputable media outlets. Part of this was due to someone who was not authorized to speak on the family's behalf and who claimed to be the publicist of record decided to disseminate false information on her own and without the consent of the family to several media outlets.

Due to the circumstances of the situation no other information will be released at this time. We are grateful for your continued support in these trying times. We now ask everyone to allow us to mourn the loss of our beloved Roderick Anthony Burton II.

For the above reasons, we have authorized Mr. Dennis Byron, Dennis Byron Management to speak on behalf of the family while we cope with this unfortunate and painful loss."


Wow...another young soul is lost to some foolishness and another family is left to grieve.

I watched the video footage below and I just feel sad that this is all we are producing out here. Why do these young boys feel it's okay to rap about shooting, gattin' splattin' sprayin' takin' baby makin' on and on and on. I for one am sick of this bullshit. It never ends! It only gets more young people killed when this kind of stuff is glorified.

Am I saying it was his fault, hell no. I believe these rappers want to live, but there's got to be a better way to go about it.

Most of these young artist are some of the nicest people you would ever want to meet but the topics they rap about are not and unfortunately there are some people out there who can't tell the difference.

Freestyle about how much your family means to you and how you want to make a difference in your life when you "get yours" but come on people, wake up before you never will again!