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

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

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  • Nickname:
    51 Dolph
    27 Young Dolph👑
    14 Paper Route Frank
    14 RIP DOLPH GABBANA!!!
    18 THE GOAT
    10 DA REAL PRE 💙
    31 The true King Of Memphis
    6 Big Flippa
    4 mane mane
    8 My favorite rapper
    9 Young Dolph
    8 Flipper
    8 FRANK
    9 "its Dolphhhh"
    7 Flippa 🐬
    5 Dolph Gabbana
    4 Frank
    7 Young dolph
    5 PRE
    6 PAPER ROUTE FRANK
  • Number of children:
    1 1
    11 2 and he also had a beautiful Black Queen
    14 2 kids, a son and a daughter
    3 2 that he dearly loved
  • Personality:
    22 Almost like a father to the streets💯 taught valuable lessons through his music
    15 Legendary
    15 South Memphis Legend
    4 big goat
    7 he was fie at rappin i love all his song rip the goat
    8 he enjoyed the finer things in life
    4 He is proud to be Black
    2 rule number 1 gey that money first. ´ǵet paid´ LLdolph.<3
    2 get*
    3 RIP Mr Yeah Yeah frm H-town
    5 Family man
    3 Loves his kids
  • Occupation:
    12 Entrepreneur
    8 Rapper
    5 songwriter
    4 Boss/Provider
    6 Realist n****💯😪
    13 trapper/rapper/bad bih snatcher
    3 Record Label Ceo
    4 Protector
    4 Wonderful Father
    4 Artist
  • Workplace:
    4 Paper Route
    4 South Memphis Community
    3 Boyle
    6 Paper Route Empire
    5 Never punched a clock 🐬 PRE 24/7 Choppo
    3 PRE
  • Schools attended:
    3 Paper Route Empire
    5 Hamilton High school
  • Comments:
    9 RIP King! I hate to see any of us here
    7 You motivated all of us . We gon miss you dolph . You left a legacy .! LongLive Dolph
    4 NAWWWWW MANN PLEASE DONT TELL ME THIS TRUE 🤦🏿
    4 Very Humbling Human Being Such a Soft Spoken Gentleman
    2 RIP u taught me a lot through your songs🙏🏾 will never forget
    2 Born in the 80s crack baby
    10 Dang Dolph I’m sorry they did that to you prayers to your family💔🙏🏽
    2 its ya boy yo gotti.
    2 Rest Easy!!! Straight Savages out here!!
    4 Love Live The KING OF MEMPHIS👑
    2 dame shame smh rip to a legend
    3 LONG LIVE THE KING OF MEMPHIS !!! WE LOVE U
    2 PRE FOREVAAAAA
    2 So sad! The motivation from the music was unlike any other!
    12 It's a shame they took this man away from his kids before the holiday's. DOLPH FOREVER ❗🦈💙🙏
    5 It’s sad what rappers do to each other emulate county stars
    1 Room for all! The more successful we are the faster we rise
    3 Coming to support his community
    3 We will NEVER make it, if we continue like this!
    4 Black men deserve to grow old too!
    1 RIP King!
    1 Missing you 😞
    1 rest in peace we love you,fly high king you are the best
    7 THIS WAS THE MOST SOLID BROTHER OUT MEMPHIS WHO WAS PUTTING MONEY BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY ‼️
    2 R.I.P YOUNG DOLPH. LOVE U😞😞
    2 R.i.p dolph much love bra
    1 U gave people hope that they can really make it out da trap
    3 Don't forget to get the money!
    5 Rest in God's grace.
    1 rip dolph you been 💯 king of Memphis love from lil rock
    2 FLIPPA
    2 Long Live Young Dolph!!!!
    2 we always love you brother
    7 St.Louis Loves Dolph💙💛 Prayers for his Family 🙏🏾
    4 Much love from Kc ta Memphis 💯 your music kept my dayz going Rip Dolph
    6 we miss you young dolph
    1 Rest King Chicago Love you
    2 RIP King
    3 Rest in Gods kingdom 🙏🏽🕊️😢can't believe this happened very dark period we're in
    1 we have to power to end gun violence by eliminating hate and bitterness from the heart with love
    1 whoever made guns had no value on life nor what lifes purpose is about. life is 4 beings to live
    2 Rip Dolph, Love you my n****
    1 you already know 💔
    3 End Gun Violence NOW! Rest In Peace King 👑
    1 Rest Easy King!
    1 Rest in power King! 💙🕊
    5 Prayers from STL 🙏🏾 you will be missed 🐬
    3 Damn rip dolph did everything right rest up king🕊☝🏼
    5 We lost another good one, thank you for all the work you put in while you where here on earth!!
    1 R.i.P young🐬
    1 R.I.P King. Love and light to the family 🤍
    4 please stop deleting the comments in this section,it's condolences from his fans
    1 Rest Easy Dolph 🕊 PRE forever ❤️
    1 R.I.P 🐬🤍🕊
    5 It’s Dolph 😪Rest In Power 🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬💙💙💙💙💙
    2 Can’t Believe they took you away
    1 rip king! my deepest empathy to the family. nuri ali cayce sc.
    2 LLDolph 🐬 from Delaware.
    3 JUSTICE 4 DOLPH!!!
    1 The new millennium Tupac R.I.P Young Dolph 😭
    4 Just don’t seem real to see Dolph face on here. Fly high Dolph your name forever lives on earth
    2 R.I.P King you was a REAL ONE
    1 so sad 🙏🏽 to his family💔🙏🏽
    2 REST IN PARADISE, YOU WERE TAKING OUT YOUR GLOW,YOUR BABIES WILL CARRY ON YOUR LEGACY'S ❤😘🥰🤴
    2 🕊R.I.P. King of Memphis 🕊
    1 From one Hamiltonian to another, I"m sorry this happened to you. Rest In Power King.
    1 My heart goes out to Young Dolph's family from Debra Reed .
    2 This is so sad and upsetting…..
    2 Young Dolph, you were too good for this evil world that we're in.
    1 The goat 🔥🔥🔥
    1 🐬Rest Up Dolph🐬 Much Love From San Diego California😢👏🏾
    2 Such a tragic lost to everyone in the music industry! Rest Easy
    1 love you bro.its crazy I use always dreamed about us kicking it.and now u just a memory
    1 Rest Easy 🙏🏽
    2 Rest easy Dolph. 💔😪🙏🐬🐬
    1 praying for his faimly
    1 Rest In Peace! From Chicago. Extending condolences to your family here in the Chi.
    4 No child/ children should have to grow without his/ her/ their father as a result of gun violence.
    2 Sending prayers from Duval County. Dang Dolph💔
    1 RIP FROM OAKLAND YOUR FAVORITE SMOKING SPOT 🙏🏻💙
    9 WE GOTTA BRING HIS KILLER’S TO JUSTICE, THIS BROTHER DIDN’T DESERVE THIS‼️
    3 PRE!!!!!!!
    1 I LOVE YOU FOREVER!
    2 So sorry this happened to you RIP 👑
    3 DOLPH!!!!! 😔🕊🕊🕊🐬🐬🐬🐬🙏🏾
    5 You didn’t deserve this
    1 Ho gotti
    2 the pic of the suspects looked very horrifying I'm so sorry
    1 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
    3 SO SORRY THIS HAPPEN TO YOU,JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL
    2 A BEAUTIFUL SOUL TAKEN 😥😥😥🤴😘
    2 YOUR BABIES HEART WILL FORVER BE BROKEN😥😥😥😥
    6 JEALOUS IS NOT THE ANSWERS!!!😥😘🤴❤
    1 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
    1 Inspired many
    2 damn dolph
    3 A Testament of OUR jealousy
    1 Don’t know this man but it’s ashamed they took him from his family!
    6 I"m so sick and tired of these rappers hating on one another. Stop the hate and the gun violence.
    2 RIP Dolph , I looked up to you with my music . I still can’t believe you are gone
    2 I love you Dolph!!!!! My heart is 💔
    1 Love you Dolph😥 from Baltimore
    1 Young Dolph. The people who took you from this earth are get what's coming to them.
    1 from Sumter RIP YD that's fucked up how they did you prayers to your family🙏🏾
    1 Fly High King! 💙💙💙
    1 Rest Well Memphis LEGEND, KING Dolph long live your name FOREVER, EVER. God Be With Your Family 🥺
    4 WE LOVE YOU DOLPH, FROM BATON ROUGE
    2 LONG LIVE DOLPH FROM OHIO
    1 RIP Dolph‼️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
    1 South Memphis kingpin
    1 Love you Dolph❗ All the way from Buffalo,NY 💙🦈
    2 Rest easy Dolph!
    3 I Love You Dolph💙from Louisville Ky💙🐬
    2 Rest easy King of Memphis
    1 Rip Dolph from E.M.C Pat
    1 rest up bro
    1 Love You Dolph 💙🐬From Arkansas Legendary Rapper Of All Time 🕴🏽💸🐬💙
    1 That young n**** he SPECIAL! Love you Dolph, RIP Mayne
    1 ONE
    6 Prayers to his mom from one MOTHER to another on the loss of a S💔N.
    2 RIP YP💔🐬 REST WELL KING🕊
    1 I cannot listen to your songs without weeping rite Now
    1 STILL IN DISBELIEF.. REST EASY KING!!!
    1 Now who's going to give out Turkeys and food to you lame a**. Don't care who yall kill!
    1 if its not one thing its a mf nother we trap together than thats my mf brother
    1 DOLPH 🕊🕊🦍🦍🦍👑👑🤴🏾🤴🏾
    1 King of Memphis you earned that with them flows
    1 give a fukk about this black darkskin bitch made n****
    2 Rest In Power Young Dolph. It's a damn shame. Jealousy and hatred are an all time high.
    1 Prayers up for Young Dolph"s wife and two children.
    2 It's crazy as hell when a young black man is murdered because he"s successful.
    2 Haters hated on Young Dolph because he was successful.
    2 When are we as a black gonna stop hating on each other and start celebrating each other's success?
    3 Of all the other races, we as a black race is the only race who hates on each other.
    1 Where is it written that a rapper"s days are numbered because he"s successful?
    1 Love live Adolph From Texas to Memphis 💙🐬
    1 REAL ONE ! 💯🐬
    2 So sad my kids loves your music RIP ~Akron,Ohio
    1 Yass! Young Dolph you represented Hamilton High School well!
    2 My black race we love to see each other doing bad but hate to see each other doing good.
    3 Rappers hated on Young Dolph just like rappers hated on Tupac
    1 And will everybody please stop it with Black Lives Matter bs?
    2 We as a black race don't say Black Lives Matter when we're killing each other.
    2 Rest easy brother
    2 WE NEED TO BRING HIS KILLERS TO JUSTICE; HE DIDN’T DESERVE THIS‼️
    2 This was the most SOLID BROTHER ; This brother was putting money back into his community
    2 Prayers for his family
    3 STOP DELETING THE COMMENTS
    2 Please be aware! Someone keeps deleting the memorial
    2 System administrator

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