Renetta Yemika Lowe-Bridgewater, age 28

Lost to gun violence on December 20, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

known by the stage name Magnolia Shorty, was an American rapper in the New Orleans-based bounce music scene. She and Ms. Tee were the first women signed to Cash Money Records. Her 1997 debut album Monkey on the Dick is considered a bounce classic, and she "was already considered a legend of bounce music" at the time of her death.

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