{"id":100724,"date":"2021-02-19T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100724"},"modified":"2021-02-19T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:10:20","slug":"rapper-prince-markie-dee-dies-at-52-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100724","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Prince Markie Dee Dies at 52 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100724\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=100724\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-100725 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39474304-0-image-a-69_1613703384289-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39474304-0-image-a-69_1613703384289-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39474304-0-image-a-69_1613703384289-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39474304-0-image-a-69_1613703384289-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/39474304-0-image-a-69_1613703384289.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Anthony Morales, better known by the stage name Prince Markie Dee, and a founding member of The Fat Boys, died February 18, 2021, in Miami, Florida, one day before his 53rd birthday. The cause of death was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Born on February 19, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, Morales and the other members of the Fat Boys, became a pioneering rap group that gained fame in the 1980s. Morales\u2019s accomplishments with the Fat Boys includes seven full length albums. Their debut album, Fat Boys, was released on May 29,1984 and was certified Gold one year later, on May 6, 1985. Their 1987 album, Crushin\u2019 reached platinum. Their hit single from that album \u201cWipeout\u201d featured The Beach Boys peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The group disbanded in 1991 and Morales continued with a successful solo career, releasing two albums \u201cFree\u201d (1992), featuring the #1 single \u201cTypical Reasons (Swing My Way)\u201d and \u201cLove Daddy\u201d in 1995. Morales wrote songs and produced tracks for artists such as Mary J, Blige, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Craig Mack and Marc Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Mark Anthony Morales\u2019 family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Geoffrey Huchel Mark Anthony Morales, better known by the stage name Prince Markie Dee, and a founding member of The Fat Boys, died February 18, 2021, in Miami, Florida, one day before his 53rd birthday. The cause of death was not disclosed. Born on February 19, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, Morales and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[25590],"class_list":["post-100724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-rapper-prince-markie-dee-dies-at-52-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100724"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}