0 Hundreds gather for vigil remembering Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo 
 
 SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - Channel 2 Action News has confirmed the victim in a crash in South Fulton County has been identified as Carlos Walker, also known as Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo. 
 
 Fulton County police say the crash happened around 2:20 a.m. when the 2016 Audi that Walker was driving crashed over a guardrail, hit several trees and caught fire at the Cascade Road exit. 
 
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 The police department says the 40-year-old was ejected and died at the scene. Two women in the car were injured and taken to a hospital with non life-threatening injuries. 
 
 The rapper's manager confirmed the news and Shawty Lo's Twitter account put out a statement. 
 
 My brother has passed he is no longer here but his spirit, his kind heart , and his music will live on Long live Shawty Lo King of Bankhead — SHAWTY LO (@THATSSHAWTYLO) September 21, 2016 
 
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 After initially describing the crash as a hit-and-run, “it has been confirmed now that it was a single car accident,” Fulton police spokeswoman Cpl. Maureen Smith said. 
 
 The rapper formed the hip hop group D4L with fellow Atlanta rappers Fabo, Mook-B and Stoney. The group released the popular songs "Betcha Can't Do It Like Me" and "Laffy Taffy." 
 
 He was born in Moultrie, Georgia in 1976. 
 
 Update: Manager confirms, Rapper #ShawtyLo killed in car crash. Police now say accident was a single car crash- no hit & run. @wsbtv pic.twitter.com/JcFbFkGbKN — Audrey Washington (@AudreyWSBTV) September 21, 2016 
 
 Channel 2’s Audrey Washington met with Shawty Lo's group D4L and his manager after they spoke on the Ryan Cameron Morning Show with Wanda Smith. 
 
 His friend broke down in tears when he explained he invited the rapper to hang out with him Tuesday night. 
 
 "I called him and asked him to come out, you know? And he came out and my buddy didn't go back home, you know?” Shawty Lo’s friend said. 
 
 Shawty Lo made news in 2013 when the Oxygen network announced plans for a special about his blended family, which includes 11 children with 10 women. After outrage and online petitions, the special entitled “All My Babies’ Mamas” was scrapped before it even aired. 
 
 No other details about the crash were released. 
 
 Artists, neighbors, friends and family mourn loss of Shawty Lo 
 
 Artists, neighbors, childhood friends and family have gathered along Donald Lee Hollowell with the sound of Shawty Lo's music blasting through the doors of the ORG studio. 
 
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 "We just stunned right now,” D4L co-founder Marcus Smith said. “The community is just stunned." 
 
 Shawty Lo is memorialized in so many personal ways once you cross into Donald Lee Hollowell. 
 
 "And for him to leave today?” friend Shawn Robinson asked. “I'm crushed. It's hard. It's very hard for me. And everybody just left Yung Joc party last night, you understand me?" 
 
 On every corner, you'd find people mourning the loss of the 40-year-old who rose to fame in the early 2000s, but never became a stranger to this neighborhood. 
 
 "They really looked up to him, especially if you could be one of the ones that make it out,” friend Dontavius Dowell said. 
 
 "Thanksgiving, Christmas. People needed a lot of things and he came out of his own pocket and gave,” Smith said. 
 
 Outside the ORG studio off Donald Lee Hollowell, one of Shawty Lo's 11 children stepped out to speak with us. 
 
 "We trying to strong, but we can't. You know, we can't bring him back, but he in a better place, though,” son Michael Robinson said. 
 
 The two unidentified female passenger are being treated at Grady as the cause of the accident remains under investigation. 
 
 Channel 2 Action News has not heard anything about funeral arrangements at this point. 
 
 I am so so so devastated that words can not describe how I feel right now. Shawty Lo was not just my artist he was my Brother He was My Friend. I have been Lo MGR for over 10yrs He was Loyal and he had my back when no one else did. I could count on him when I had no one else to turn to. We been thru so much together. If you knew Lo then you know he was genuine He was Real he would do anything he could if he had it. I Genuinely love this man like my blood brother. I Will Keep His Name Alive and and His Music !!!! Please Pray for Us The Whole D4L Family Lo Family His Mom His Kids His Children Mothers We need you all prayers and Support !!!!!! A photo posted by Johnnie Cabbell (@johnniecabbell) on Sep 21, 2016 at 4:24am PDT 
 
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 Atlanta rapper Carlos "Shawty Lo" Walker, a member of the rap group D4L whose "Laffy Taffy" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005, died early Wednesday morning in a car crash in Fulton County, Georgia. He was 40. 
 
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 Shawty Lo's manager Johnnie Cabbell used the rapper's Twitter to confirm that the rapper died in the single-car accident. "My brother has passed; he is no longer here but his spirit, his kind heart and his music will live on," Cabbell wrote. "Long live Shawty Lo King of Bankhead." 
 
 
 
 "I am so so so devastated that words can not describe how I feel right now," Cabbell wrote on Instagram. "Shawty Lo was not just my artist he was my Brother He was My Friend. I have been Lo MGR for over 10 [years]. He was Loyal and he had my back when no one else did. I could count on him when I had no one else to turn to. We been thru so much together. If you knew Lo, then you know he was genuine. He was Real." 
 
 
 
 Although initial reports alleged that the accident was a hit-and-run, police later told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "it has been confirmed now that it was a single car accident." According to police, Walker's white Audi was driving south on I-285 when the vehicle went over a guardrail, hit two trees and burst into flames. 
 
 
 
 Walker, who was driving at the time of the accident, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Two other people in the car were taken to the hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. 
 
 The rapper rose to prominence in 2005 along with his D4L crew, short for "Down for Life," with their hit "Laffy Taffy," the chart-topping single that helped popularize the Atlanta-bred genre snap music. D4L also released their debut LP Down for Life in 2005, which peaked at Number 22 on the Billboard 200, but the group disbanded the next year. 
 
 D'Quincy Dukes & Carlos "Shawty Lo" Walker, both friends from Bowen Holmes & both gone too soon. Love y'all brothers. Sad day Westside — Killer Mike (@KillerMike) September 21, 2016 
 
 Walker embarked on a solo career that included another hit, "Dey Know," from his 2008 solo album Units in the City. For "Dey Know," Shawty Lo was named Rookie of the Year at the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards, but the rapper would never release another album despite aligning with 50 Cent's G-Unit label in 2011. The rapper continued to release mixtapes and make featured appearances throughout the past decade, rapping alongside Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Rick Ross, Killer Mike, Ludacris and many more. 
 
 
 
 In 2013, Shawty Lo filmed a reality show called All My Babies' Mamas that was scheduled to air on the Oxygen channel. However, the controversial series ultimately never aired after critics panned the show's premise, which focused on Shawty Lo and his 11 children with 10 women.
– Rapper Shawty Lo—real name Carlos Walker—has died in a blazing car crash in Atlanta, his manager confirms. Fulton County police say a single car accident occurred around 2:20am Wednesday when a white Audi went over a guardrail on an I-285 ramp, hit two trees, and caught fire, per the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Shawty Lo, who WSB-TV reports was driving, was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene while two female passengers were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Manager Johnnie Cabbell tells the Rickey Smiley radio show that Shawty Lo had just left a strip club. "My brother has passed; he is no longer here but his spirit, his kind heart and his music will live on," Cabbell writes on Twitter. "I am so so so devastated that words cannot describe how I feel right now," he adds on Instagram. Shawty Lo, 40, was named Rookie of the Year at the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards, reports Rolling Stone. He also made headlines in 2013 over an Oxygen reality show focusing on his 11 children from 10 women, though the show never actually aired. He was best known musically for singles "Dey Know" and "Laffy Taffy" with rap group D4L.