After more than a year of speculation and rumors, Bronx-born rapper Tim Dog has been confirmed dead as part of a Dateline NBC investigation. When news broke on February 15 of 2013 that the man born Timothy Blair had died due to a seizure stemming from diabetic complications, some suggested he’d faked his own death in order to escape his legal debts — specifically, those accrued as a result of his havnig scammed multiple women via online dating services. A judge even issued a posthumous warrant calling for proof of his passing.
Because that’s where the details got sketchy. Although Blair’s family held a funeral for him in February, no official death certificate could be obtained by Dateline at that time, and the whereabouts of money sent to a PayPal account for the rapper’s daughters couldn’t be traced (implying that maybe the money went to Blair himself). Fellow MCs from Dog’s crew also claimed that his newly recorded voice appeared on a new track, “Falsified,” released months after his supposed death.
But new information now proves though that Tim Dog, who gained early fame for his West Coast rap dis track “Fuck Compton,” truly did actually 100 percent totally die (barring reincarnation possibilities) on February 15, 2013, according to a fresh Dateline report. Here’s the official word:
Timothy Blair died at Hospice Atlanta, Dekalb County, GA on 14 February, 2013. Dateline obtained his death certificate from the Dekalb County GA Board of Health. No paperwork was filed in the county where Blair was widely believed to be living — because death records are filed in the county of death; and no one except close family, friends and carers knew where the former rapper lived — and died.
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Thus ends the long, harrowed saga of a Bronx rapper who is now probably more famous posthumously than he ever was alive.
