WorldStarHipHop founder Lee O’Denat, who was identified by his nickname “Q,” died on Monday, January 23, TMZ reported on Tuesday. He was once in his mid-40s.

The CEO died in his sleep, and even supposing the autopsy has now not been completed, a supply told TMZ that the entertainment magnate died of a center attack.

O’Denat based the popular news and gossip web site in 2005 along with his spouse, Brianna Padilla, to distribute rap mixtapes. It later developed to function music videos, viral content, battle videos, sports clips and more. When loopy occasions would happen at the streets, bystanders would put up smartphone pictures to WorldStarHipHop, which catapulted it to one of the crucial largest web pages for the hip-hop community.

His site is arguable, however O’Denat defended its specific videos. “Hip-hop is for the intercourse, the medication, the violence, the beefs, the culture. That’s the competitiveness of hip-hop, so I felt just like the web site had to be R-rated,” he told The New York Times in 2015. “People is also indignant via one of the most content, however hello, the web is not a censorship boat. We’re the Carnival cruise, guy. You don’t have to go browsing.”

According to The New York Times profile, O’Denat was raised by a unmarried mother and fell in love with computer systems whilst working at Circuit City right through the early days of the internet. “I was telling other people, ‘This is the longer term,’” he stated. “They had been like, ‘This goes nowhere.’ They laughed at me.” 

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