A 28-year-old woman found shot to death in a car that crashed into
the gates of a New Orleans apartment complex has been identified as
Renetta “Magnolia Shorty” Lowe, a bounce MC who had been affiliated with
Cash Money Records.
News of the rapper’s death spread late Monday afternoon, but the New Orleans coroner’s office did not identify the deceased
until this morning. She was in the crashed vehicle with 25-year-old
Jerome Hampton; both Magnolia Shorty and Hampton were ruled to have died
from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body.
Magnolia Shorty joined the Cash Money crew in the early ’90s,
appeared on a Juvenile song when she was 15, and was working on her
second album . She released a duet with 17-year-old singer Kourtney
Heart, My Boy” earlier this year. Continue Reading
