Adolph “Young Dolph” Thornton, Jr., age 36

Lost to gun violence on November 17, 2021 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Nickname:
    Dolph
    Young Dolph👑
    Paper Route Frank
    RIP DOLPH GABBANA!!!
    THE GOAT
    DA REAL PRE 💙
    The true King Of Memphis
    Big Flippa
    mane mane
    My favorite rapper
    Young Dolph
    Flipper
    FRANK
    "its Dolphhhh"
    Flippa 🐬
    Dolph Gabbana
    Frank
    Young dolph
    PRE
    PAPER ROUTE FRANK
  • Number of children:
    2
    1
    2 and he also had a beautiful Black Queen
    2 kids, a son and a daughter
    2 that he dearly loved
  • Personality:
    Almost like a father to the streets💯 taught valuable lessons through his music
    Legendary
    South Memphis Legend
    big goat
    he was fie at rappin i love all his song rip the goat
    he enjoyed the finer things in life
    He is proud to be Black
    rule number 1 gey that money first. ´ǵet paid´ LLdolph.<3
    get*
    RIP Mr Yeah Yeah frm H-town
    Family man
    Loves his kids
  • Occupation:
    Entrepreneur
    Rapper
    songwriter
    Boss/Provider
    Realist n****💯😪
    trapper/rapper/bad bih snatcher
    Record Label Ceo
    Protector
    Wonderful Father
    Artist
  • Workplace:
    Paper Route
    South Memphis Community
    Boyle
    Paper Route Empire
    Never punched a clock 🐬 PRE 24/7 Choppo
    PRE
  • Schools attended:
    Paper Route Empire
    Hamilton High school
  • Comments:
    RIP King! I hate to see any of us here
    You motivated all of us . We gon miss you dolph . You left a legacy .! LongLive Dolph
    NAWWWWW MANN PLEASE DONT TELL ME THIS TRUE 🤦🏿
    Very Humbling Human Being Such a Soft Spoken Gentleman
    RIP u taught me a lot through your songs🙏🏾 will never forget
    Born in the 80s crack baby
    Dang Dolph I’m sorry they did that to you prayers to your family💔🙏🏽
    its ya boy yo gotti.
    Rest Easy!!! Straight Savages out here!!
    Love Live The KING OF MEMPHIS👑
    dame shame smh rip to a legend
    LONG LIVE THE KING OF MEMPHIS !!! WE LOVE U
    PRE FOREVAAAAA
    So sad! The motivation from the music was unlike any other!
    It's a shame they took this man away from his kids before the holiday's. DOLPH FOREVER ❗🦈💙🙏
    It’s sad what rappers do to each other emulate county stars
    Room for all! The more successful we are the faster we rise
    Coming to support his community
    We will NEVER make it, if we continue like this!
    Black men deserve to grow old too!
    RIP King!
    Missing you 😞
    rest in peace we love you,fly high king you are the best
    THIS WAS THE MOST SOLID BROTHER OUT MEMPHIS WHO WAS PUTTING MONEY BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY ‼️
    R.I.P YOUNG DOLPH. LOVE U😞😞
    R.i.p dolph much love bra
    U gave people hope that they can really make it out da trap
    Don't forget to get the money!
    Rest in God's grace.
    rip dolph you been 💯 king of Memphis love from lil rock
    FLIPPA
    Long Live Young Dolph!!!!
    we always love you brother
    St.Louis Loves Dolph💙💛 Prayers for his Family 🙏🏾
    Much love from Kc ta Memphis 💯 your music kept my dayz going Rip Dolph
    we miss you young dolph
    Rest King Chicago Love you
    RIP King
    Rest in Gods kingdom 🙏🏽🕊️😢can't believe this happened very dark period we're in
    we have to power to end gun violence by eliminating hate and bitterness from the heart with love
    whoever made guns had no value on life nor what lifes purpose is about. life is 4 beings to live
    Rip Dolph, Love you my n****
    you already know 💔
    End Gun Violence NOW! Rest In Peace King 👑
    Rest Easy King!
    Rest in power King! 💙🕊
    Prayers from STL 🙏🏾 you will be missed 🐬
    Damn rip dolph did everything right rest up king🕊☝🏼
    We lost another good one, thank you for all the work you put in while you where here on earth!!
    R.i.P young🐬
    R.I.P King. Love and light to the family 🤍
    please stop deleting the comments in this section,it's condolences from his fans
    Rest Easy Dolph 🕊 PRE forever ❤️
    R.I.P 🐬🤍🕊
    It’s Dolph 😪Rest In Power 🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬💙💙💙💙💙
    Can’t Believe they took you away
    rip king! my deepest empathy to the family. nuri ali cayce sc.
    LLDolph 🐬 from Delaware.
    JUSTICE 4 DOLPH!!!
    The new millennium Tupac R.I.P Young Dolph 😭
    Just don’t seem real to see Dolph face on here. Fly high Dolph your name forever lives on earth
    R.I.P King you was a REAL ONE
    so sad 🙏🏽 to his family💔🙏🏽
    REST IN PARADISE, YOU WERE TAKING OUT YOUR GLOW,YOUR BABIES WILL CARRY ON YOUR LEGACY'S ❤😘🥰🤴
    🕊R.I.P. King of Memphis 🕊
    From one Hamiltonian to another, I"m sorry this happened to you. Rest In Power King.
    My heart goes out to Young Dolph's family from Debra Reed .
    This is so sad and upsetting…..
    Young Dolph, you were too good for this evil world that we're in.
    The goat 🔥🔥🔥
    🐬Rest Up Dolph🐬 Much Love From San Diego California😢👏🏾
    Such a tragic lost to everyone in the music industry! Rest Easy
    love you bro.its crazy I use always dreamed about us kicking it.and now u just a memory
    Rest Easy 🙏🏽
    Rest easy Dolph. 💔😪🙏🐬🐬
    praying for his faimly
    Rest In Peace! From Chicago. Extending condolences to your family here in the Chi.
    No child/ children should have to grow without his/ her/ their father as a result of gun violence.
    Sending prayers from Duval County. Dang Dolph💔
    RIP FROM OAKLAND YOUR FAVORITE SMOKING SPOT 🙏🏻💙
    WE GOTTA BRING HIS KILLER’S TO JUSTICE, THIS BROTHER DIDN’T DESERVE THIS‼️
    PRE!!!!!!!
    I LOVE YOU FOREVER!
    So sorry this happened to you RIP 👑
    DOLPH!!!!! 😔🕊🕊🕊🐬🐬🐬🐬🙏🏾
    You didn’t deserve this
    Ho gotti
    the pic of the suspects looked very horrifying I'm so sorry
    🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
    SO SORRY THIS HAPPEN TO YOU,JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL
    A BEAUTIFUL SOUL TAKEN 😥😥😥🤴😘
    YOUR BABIES HEART WILL FORVER BE BROKEN😥😥😥😥
    JEALOUS IS NOT THE ANSWERS!!!😥😘🤴❤
    🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
    Inspired many
    damn dolph
    A Testament of OUR jealousy
    Don’t know this man but it’s ashamed they took him from his family!
    I"m so sick and tired of these rappers hating on one another. Stop the hate and the gun violence.
    RIP Dolph , I looked up to you with my music . I still can’t believe you are gone
    I love you Dolph!!!!! My heart is 💔
    Love you Dolph😥 from Baltimore
    Young Dolph. The people who took you from this earth are get what's coming to them.
    from Sumter RIP YD that's fucked up how they did you prayers to your family🙏🏾
    Fly High King! 💙💙💙
    Rest Well Memphis LEGEND, KING Dolph long live your name FOREVER, EVER. God Be With Your Family 🥺
    WE LOVE YOU DOLPH, FROM BATON ROUGE
    LONG LIVE DOLPH FROM OHIO
    RIP Dolph‼️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
    South Memphis kingpin
    Love you Dolph❗ All the way from Buffalo,NY 💙🦈
    Rest easy Dolph!
    I Love You Dolph💙from Louisville Ky💙🐬
    Rest easy King of Memphis
    Rip Dolph from E.M.C Pat
    rest up bro
    Love You Dolph 💙🐬From Arkansas Legendary Rapper Of All Time 🕴🏽💸🐬💙
    That young n**** he SPECIAL! Love you Dolph, RIP Mayne
    ONE
    Prayers to his mom from one MOTHER to another on the loss of a S💔N.
    RIP YP💔🐬 REST WELL KING🕊
    I cannot listen to your songs without weeping rite Now
    STILL IN DISBELIEF.. REST EASY KING!!!
    Now who's going to give out Turkeys and food to you lame a**. Don't care who yall kill!
    if its not one thing its a mf nother we trap together than thats my mf brother
    DOLPH 🕊🕊🦍🦍🦍👑👑🤴🏾🤴🏾
    King of Memphis you earned that with them flows
    give a fukk about this black darkskin bitch made n****
    Rest In Power Young Dolph. It's a damn shame. Jealousy and hatred are an all time high.
    Prayers up for Young Dolph"s wife and two children.
    It's crazy as hell when a young black man is murdered because he"s successful.
    Haters hated on Young Dolph because he was successful.
    When are we as a black gonna stop hating on each other and start celebrating each other's success?
    Of all the other races, we as a black race is the only race who hates on each other.
    Where is it written that a rapper"s days are numbered because he"s successful?
    Love live Adolph From Texas to Memphis 💙🐬
    REAL ONE ! 💯🐬
    So sad my kids loves your music RIP ~Akron,Ohio
    Yass! Young Dolph you represented Hamilton High School well!
    My black race we love to see each other doing bad but hate to see each other doing good.
    Rappers hated on Young Dolph just like rappers hated on Tupac
    And will everybody please stop it with Black Lives Matter bs?
    We as a black race don't say Black Lives Matter when we're killing each other.
    Rest easy brother
    WE NEED TO BRING HIS KILLERS TO JUSTICE; HE DIDN’T DESERVE THIS‼️
    This was the most SOLID BROTHER ; This brother was putting money back into his community
    Prayers for his family
    STOP DELETING THE COMMENTS
    Please be aware! Someone keeps deleting the memorial
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