Chris Kelly

Chris Kelly Kriss Kross

10:17 am, May 2nd, 2013

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Celebrities are taking to Twitter to mourn the loss of Chris Kelly.

The 34-year-old rapper, one half of the ’90s duo Kris Kross, was found unresponsive in his Atlanta home on Wednesday and later declared dead at a local hospital.

A cause of death has not been determined.

Kelly rose to fame in the 1990s as a young teen performing with Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith, after getting discovered by Jermaine Dupri.

They are best known for the chart-topping song “Jump,” which hit number one in 1992.

Kelly and Smith would famously wear their clothes backward, and contributed a rap song to the Nickelodeon show “Rugrats.”

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Chris Kelly Kriss Kross

10:38 am, May 2nd, 2013

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Chris Kelly of Kriss Kross was using cocaine and heroin the night before he died, according to a police report, and authorities are investigating his death as a possible drug overdose.

As Gossip Cop reported, the rapper was found unresponsive in his Atlanta home on Wednesday after his mother called 911.

He was pronounced dead at a local hospital a few hours later.

Law enforcement officials in Fulton County are now treating the death as a potential drug overdose after Kelly’s mother Donna Kelly Pratt told them that the rapper had an “extensive history” of drug use and had taken a mixture of heroin and cocaine (“speedballs”) hours before he passed out, never to awake.

A toxicology report is expected to be released shortly.

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