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Biz Markie, Hip-Hop’s ‘Just a Friend’ Clown Prince, Dies at 57 (Published 2021)
An innovative yet proudly goofy rapper, he had an unlikely crossover hit with a tune that led one critic to call him (favorably) “the father of modern bad singing.”