Young Dolph.Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty
Young Dolph was a regular customer at the cookie shop where he was fatally shot in Memphis on Wednesday.
Just six days before his death, Makeda’s Cookiesshared a videofrom one of Young Dolph’s previous visits. In the footage, the rapper, 36, is standing outside the shop with several cookies in his hand.
“This is all I came for,” he says, showing off the chocolate chip cookies. “Straight out the oven.”
Young Dolph (né Adolph Robert Thornton Jr.) was fatally shot outside the store on Airways Blvd., the Memphis Police Departmentconfirmed Wednesday in a press release.
Police said that “preliminary information” indicated that the “Talking to My Scale” rapper was the victim, but the information “will be confirmed once the identification process has been completed.”
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Maurice Hill, the owner of Makeda’s, told local Fox affiliateWHBQthat the rapper, who was best known for his feature on the 2015 O.T. Genasis hit “Cut It,” had entered his place of business to buy cookies when a vehicle approached and someone fired the fatal shot.
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Young Dolph broke onto the scene in 2016 with his debut albumKing of Memphis, and in the years since, continued to churn out at least one album each year.
His most recent project, a collaboration with his cousin Key Glock calledDum and Dummer 2,was released in March as a follow-up to 2019’sDum and Dummer, which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
In an emotional Instagram, Keke Palmer recalled meeting Mia Jaye, Young Dolph’s partner, on an airplane with their two children while the family was en route to visit him.
source: people.com
