This past Sunday, Rodney King died at age 47, closing the book on a troubled life burdened by one of the more tragic cases of unwanted celebrity in recent American history. Only two days prior to King’s death, the rapper and actor Ice Cube turned 43 years old, and 20 years ago no musical figure [...]
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