A$AP Mob affiliate Chynna Rogers — or simply Chynna — passed away on Wednesday (April 8). According to Page Six, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health has revealed her official cause of death was an accidental overdose.
Chynna was vocal about her struggles with drug addiction. In a 2018 interview with Pitchfork, she admitted “it got to the where [she] had to do something just to be able to get onstage and do [her] job.”
Her final release was January’s in case i die first EP.
[This article has been updated. The following was published on April 9, 2020.]
Burgeoning rapper and former model Chynna Rogers — better known as Chynna — has reportedly passed away. According to The Wrap, her manager John Miller confirmed she died on Wednesday (April 8).
“I can regrettably confirm Chynna passed away,” Miller said via email. He added that her family said, “Chynna was deeply loved and will be sorely missed.”
Chynna signed to Ford Models at the age of 14. After connecting with the late A$AP Yams, who became like a mentor to her as a teenager, she started taking steps to establishing a rap career. In 2013, she dropped a single called “Selfie” and followed up with “Glen Coco.”
She also released a string of EPs starting with 2015’s I’m Not Here. This Isn’t Happening and 2016’s music 2 die 2.
Although Chynna’s cause of death hasn’t been revealed, she’d struggled with addiction, which she addressed on 2016’s Ninety mixtape. During a 2018 interview with Pitchfork, she said, “It got to the point where I had to do something just to be able to get onstage and do my job. I didn’t like that.”
Eerily, her final release was January’s in case i die first EP.
Numerous artists have reacted to Chynna’s death on social, including A$AP Ferg, A-Trak and Kehlani, Digable Planets MC Ladybug Mecca and Chika.
“chynna you were fuckin hilarious bro,” Kehlani wrote. “today was our last exchange of jokes & those i will miss the most. i can’t believe it idk know.”
Check out some of the reactions below.
Stay off that oxy, kids
Stay off the semen to this jackasses mom. Should have swallowed or spit him out.
– oxy head
“sad story”‘s comment was the first comment under this article and he was right about the cause of death. I just want to point this out that his comment was posted days before this updated news about her cause of death.
These kids are already on the edge of dying, then they become famous and die on us. She is just another drug abusing fiend. Claiming that they need to get high before hitting the stage. Whoever says rapping and singing is for every one. If you feel you can’t face stand the heat, do the world a favour drop your mic and go home. We have way too much human sacrifices by way of drugs.
Uncle L you aren’t being helpful telling ppl to not become musicians. Often music helps ppl cope w life. And nearly All musicians thru history do alcohol and drugs. Majority Americans use alcohol. Expecting music industry to be only teetotalers is so unrealistic. Many addicts r self medicating undiagnosed mental health issues. I don’t think Ur judgemental tone helps atall. U claim to not want deaths but u r cold hearted saying “can’t stand heat stay out kitchen”. Alcoholics exist in Every industry, need to drink prior to work. Ur solution is to tell anyone who Might become an addict; to never get a job ? Then they just an unemployed addict. Ur “solution” is just disrespectful saying they “can’t take heat” like it merely a character flaw. If was that easy then zero ppl wud b addicted.
Whoa!
Judgemental- appreciate the sound words. Thank you for looking at this from a thoughtful perspective. I lost my teenage years and most my 20s to opioids/heroin. Had a bad accident at 13 and got put on pain meds. Was withdrawaling before I knew what it was. Rest is history. I’m 28 now. Been clean for 4 years. I’ve lost good friends to these drugs and almost lost myself. It ain’t cool and there’s no exceptions. Sleeping on the street and trying to kick dope ain’t a good look. If anyone reads this and needs it, please get help.
R.I.P. to homegirl. I was unaware of her music. I’ll check it out now. Addiction is no joke. Blessings and prayers to her family. May she Rest In Peace. Judging by the pics, she was beautiful. If that means anything now.
Oh yeah, now that she is dead, THAT is the time to tune in! Hop on the band wagon bro!
sounds like dey found the homegirl at home stankin up the joint.. rip
If she ain’t embalmed yet I’d still give it to her.
FAX!!!
RIP
If there was ever an advert for not doing drugs. This is it. How many rappers are going to die due to opioid addiction? Some fans follow these people. It does not benefit your life. It ends it.
This is it? This one right here? There’s been artist much more talented and even more famous to die from OD’s, but this one is it?
I hear the term “accidental” every time someone OD’s on drugs. Tbh there’s nothing accidental about it. You knowingly are taking drugs and know the consequences. Don’t want to die? The. Stop taking them.
Bro i was just saying the same shit. Its like eating and not expecting to shit
Uh, not really. A lot of it is still accidental. Example, Tom Petty. He was prescribed fentanyl for his severe chronic pain. He was no druggy. He was a man who was desperate, living in terrible pain, with no other options to relieve himself. Mind u, that’s a lot different than recreational drug use, but none the less, consuming too much can still be an accident. I have sympathy for those who NEED drugs, like those with PTSD, Chronic Pain, ect… But for those chasing a high, you reap what you sow.
Dopehead!!!
Every artist in there circle is high off coke, pills etc yet they always post nonsense like “I can’t believe this!” Flirting with death on the daily and never an intervention. A waste of life.
Take this as a lesson everyone. Say no to drugs. I mean for real stay far far away from the shit.
I wish that was true bro , but ppl will still do drugs no matter what. It won’t end, until this world ends.
Such a defeatist attitude you have son smh.
Shut up bitch. Fake ass alpha
Jesse Lee Peterson that u mayn ?
I forgot to add though, when I say to steer clear of drugs, I’m not talking about pills or lean, I’m just talking about deadly drugs like heroin. Pills and lean are generally safer than beer and liquor, so they aren’t that bad. I was doing heroin for some time, and luckily quit, and now I’m sober, just taking suboxin. I thank God every day that I quit heroin, and all I take now are prescribed drugs that aren’t dangerous.
Cool. Now I can FINALLY live and witness my DREAM of becoming an A$AP Mob Member. Been waiting for this bitch to die so I can become the next Mob affiliate. Maybe I can become the first A$AP Mob member to not die from being a junky.
Well, that was some asshole shit to say, for the simple sake of being and asshole.
Go do something productive and die in a fire…
Or don’t do something productive and die on quarantine. Either way