Hip-hop icon DJ Kay Slay dead at 55: Keith Grayson passed after COVID battle

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DJ KAY SLAYDEAD AT 55 ...After COVID Battle

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The DJ and radio executive worked with Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Three 6 Mafia, and more..

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the New York disc jockey and record executive, died yesterday (April 17), arepresentative confirmsed to Pitchfork. Hot 97, ..

Last week, he added that his friend had been taken off an extracorporeal life support machine and was “still fighting.” click here for MORE....

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Upon his death, Hot 97 thanked the “cultural icon” for “the twenty-plus years he dedicated to The Drama Hour.” CLCIK MORE...

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