The Strange Mystery Of Rapper Tim Dog's (Possibly Faked) Death Has Been Solved
Sometimes, reality really is stranger than fiction. A judge in Mississippi issued an arrest warrant for Tim Dog last year, after DeSoto County, Mississippi, prosecutors charged that the rapper had faked his own death to avoid making court-mandated payments.
Well, turns out that the Bronx, New York, MC (born Timothy Blair) really was deceased. According to NBC's Dateline, Blair died on February 14, 2013, at Hospice Atlanta and his death records were filed in Dekalb County, Georgia. Prosecutors had cited the lack of a death certificate in their case.
“I need proof. I need a death certificate showing that he’s dead, because as far as I’m concerned, he’s alive,” Steven Jubera told Memphis news channel 3 WREG in May 2013. “Nobody said where he died, nobody said where he was buried, which is very odd for an obituary.”
But the rapper couldn't afford his own funeral, so the county paid for him to be cremated.
Blair’s death certificate was obtained by Dateline from the Dekalb County Board of Health.
A DeSoto County judge issued the warrant for Blair last May because there was no record of Blair's death certificate in Fairburn, Georgia, nor Decatur, Georgia, where the “F—k Compton” MC was believed to have lived.
Tim Dog is probably best known for his role in an infamous rap battle with West Coast rivals Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. His dis record, “F--k Compton,” was aimed at the members of N.W.A. Dre and Snoop clapped back at the Bronx rapper with 1992’s “F--k Wit Dre Day.” In addition to his rap beef and 1991 debut LP, Penicillin on Wax, Dog was also known for rapping with Kool Keith in a '90s duo called Ultra.
By 2011, Blair was in legal trouble. He pled guilty to grand larceny that year and was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to repay $19,000 to Esther Pilgrim, the woman he defrauded in a financial scheme. Pilgrim reported that the payments stopped in February of last year, so she sent a private investigator to find a death certificate, but that investigation came up empty.
Pilgrim finally has her proof -- and so do we.
