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Hip-hop mogul and podcast pioneer Combat Jack dead at 48

Members of the hip-hop community expressed their condolences on Twitter.

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Hip-hop mogul and podcaster Combat Jack died on Wednesday (Dec. 20) at the age of 48, following a colon cancer diagnosis in October.

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Jack, born Reggie Ossé, worked as a lawyer and managing editor at The Source magazine, which has covered hip-hop, culture, and politics since 1988. He went on to found The Combat Jack Show podcast, on which he discussed music, race, and culture with authority and vivacity. Deemed the “undisputed #1 HipHop podcast,” The Combat Jack Show welcomed hip-hop legends such as Chuck D, RZA, and Scarface, among others.

In October, Jack went public with his colon cancer diagnosis. “In 7 years of podcasting, I’ve never missed an episode,” he said in a Twitter statement after missing his first episode. “I got hit with some real life shit. I was recently diagnosed with Colon Cancer.”

Several writers, artists, and other members of the hip-hop community expressed their condolences on Twitter in the wake of Jack’s death.

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“Hip Hop has lost one of its most important historians and voices,” Hot 97 host Peter Rosenberg tweeted. “Rest In Peace to my friend Combat Jack.”

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