Rapper Dies In Crash After Tweeting About Drink Driving At 120mph
Monday, 17 September 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Stereoboard can today reveal that our nomination for the 2012 Darwin Award goes to American rapper Ervin McKinness, after the 21 year-old tweeted about drunkenly driving at 120mph - before allegedly crashing into a wall, killing all five passengers on board.
The incident, which occurred on September 2nd, is drawing widespread attention as McKinness - whose sister has since denied that he was the driver - publicly posted that he was ‘drunk [as fuck]’ going ‘120 drifting around corners’, as well as tweeting the stupidly annoying and cringe-worthy acronym ‘YOLO’. ‘YOLO’ means ‘you only live once’ and has been widely publicised by pop-rapper Drake through his track ‘The Motto’.
He also went on to add: “Driving tweeting sipping the cup fuck yolo I'm turning it up.”
The crash came after their apparent drunken joyriding, and ended with the car going through a set of red lights and hitting a wall, killing McKinness as well as passengers Marquell Bogan, 23, Dylan George, 20, Jonathan Watson, and JaJuan Bennett, 23,
It’s not been confirmed that McKinness was definitely the driver - the police have said that it may have been Watson - but his tweets suggest that it was the rapper, who had only signed a record deal as of April.
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