Craig Mack, New York Rapper And Bad Boy Records Icon, Dead at 46

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8 years ago

March 13, 2018

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Craig Mack, the rapper from New York who found fame on Diddy’s Bad Boy label, has died at age 46, his producer confirmed to the Daily News.

Mack, who launched to hip-hop acclaim for the best-selling summer hit “Flava in Ya Ear” in 1994, died of heart failure at a hospital near his Walterboro, S.C., home Monday.

“God bless my friend. He was a good friend of mine,” said Alvin Toney, who produced Mack’s “Project: Funk Da World.”

He visited Mack in South Carolina last week to film a documentary.

“He was prepared for whatever comes, to go home to the Lord,” Toney said. “He was prepared to do that. He wasn’t scared. He was ready.”

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Machan Taylor’s Bold New Book “Naked Out Loud” — Available Now Worldwide

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2 days ago

December 8, 2025

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Acclaimed singer, songwriter, and creative visionary Machan Taylor has officially released her long-awaited book “Naked Out Loud,” now available worldwide. Published by New Haven Publishers, the book dives into the raw, unfiltered heart of what it means to create, to feel deeply, and to live without apology in a world that constantly pushes people to hide their truest selves.

Part memoir, part artistic manifesto, “Naked Out Loud” crackles with the same emotional honesty that has always defined Machan’s music. She opens the doors to her inner world—creativity, heartbreak, joy, courage, the whole messy, beautiful ride—and invites readers to shed their own masks along the way.

Machan’s career reads like a tour through modern music history: performing with Pink Floyd, Sting, Foreigner, Pat Benatar, and countless others while carving out her own respected lane as a solo artist and educator. In this book, she turns that lens inward, threading poetic reflections through real stories of triumph, doubt, and the relentless pursuit of authentic expression.