Trailblazing rapper Boss, who brought West Coast gangsta rap fervor to the Def Jam Recordings roster in the early 1990s, has died. No cause of death has been revealed. She was 54. News of the Detroit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rapper Boss, whose real name is Lichelle Laws, has died. She was 54. (Raymond Boyd / Getty Images) Lichelle Laws, the musician who ...

Dallas rapper Bobby Sessions made his way from his hometown to the nearby Austin this past week for SXSW. I caught his set at Mass Appeal, Netflix, and Def Jam’s “Live at the BBQ” at Stubb’s on ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam’s first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lichelle Laws, better known as the pioneering gangster rapper BO$$, died Monday (March 11) from kidney failure. She was 54.

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam's first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws's older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper's ...