LOS ANGELES : Gangsta Boo, aged 43, a rapper and former member of hip-hop group 'Three 6 Mafia', passed away. 

Better known as the pioneering Southern female rapper Gangsta Boo who was a member of Three 6 Mafia, with her rep confirming the rapper’s death to WREG 3 Memphis. Referring to the report Fox 13, she was found dead on Sunday afternoon. The cause of death has not been publicly released.

The Memphis-born artist commenced rapping as a teenager, and was the second female rapper to join the group. She appeared on their debut studio album, Mystic Stylez, on through 2001’s Choices: The Album. By the late Nineties, she was also carving out a solo career, beginning with 1998’s Enquiring Minds, which reached Number 46 on the Billboard 200 and spawned her hit “Where Dem Dollas At?”

Having been a part of Three 6 Mafia, Gangsta Boo said to Vibe in 2016, "It did give me a lot of confidence." "I began to realise that in addition to being attractive, I am also talented. However, you'd be shocked at how few motherfuckers are aware that I was a member of Three 6 Mafia." While Gangsta Boo remained a member of Three 6 Mafia through the release of 2001's "Choices: The Album," she left the hip-hop group in 2002 to focus entirely on her solo career, just a few years after T6M achieved platinum success with its album "Most Known Unknown" and won the 2006 Academy Award for best original song with "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the movie "Hustle & Flow."

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