Young Dolph
In the ways he memorialized his own family and held up his city, Dolph demonstrated his understanding of people as more than the sum of our generosity or our flaws. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
The Memphis Police Department attained surveillance video showing two armed suspects getting out of a white two-door Mercedes Benz and approaching rapper Young Dolph while he was inside Makeda's Cookies. Memphis Police Department hide caption
Rapper Adolph Thornton Jr., known as Young Dolph, pictured at a concert in Aug. 2020, was gunned down in Memphis on Wednesday. Paul R. Giunta/Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP hide caption
To bolster the fun and success of her already chart-climbing 2020 single "Savage," Megan Thee Stallion manifested a remix from Beyoncé. Bob Levey/Getty Images for Spotify hide caption
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The Pyramid Sports Arena in Memphis in 1998. Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
MJG (left) and Eightball (right) in the parking lot of Pressure World Carwash in Memphis in 2004. Shannon Fagan/Getty Images hide caption