Overview
- A neighbor found Forté unresponsive on his kitchen floor around 2:25 p.m. Monday in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Chilmark Police Chief Sean Slavin said there was no readily apparent cause of death and no signs of foul play as authorities await findings from the state medical examiner.
- Family friends told local media he was hospitalized after a seizure last year and had been taking anti-seizure medication.
- The Brooklyn-born rapper and producer co-wrote and produced tracks on the Fugees’ Grammy-winning The Score and contributed to Wyclef Jean’s The Carnival as part of the Refugee Camp All-Stars.
- He served seven years of a 14-year drug sentence before a 2008 commutation by President George W. Bush; tributes from Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and others followed, and he is survived by his wife, Lara Fuller, and two children.