Rapper OG Maco has died surrounded by his family in an L.A. hospital 16 days after a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was only 32.
The rapper was hospitalized on December 12 after being found with a gunshot wound to the head, according to TMZ.
A neighbor had heard the gunshot and called police. When officers arrived, they reported finding a gun lying beside the rapper’s body.
Maco, whose real name was Benedict Chiajulam Ihesiba Jr., hit the scene in 2014 with his top song “U Guessed It,” which has over 75 million views on YouTube as of this writing.
The next year, he was included in XXL’s 2015 Freshman Class. But in 2016, Maco was seriously injured in a car accident that almost killed him, nearly took the sight from his right eye, and forced him into months of convalescence. Then, in 2019, he contracted the…
