It is now being reported that the Bad Boy music artist Craig Mack, famously known for his “Flava In Ya Ear,” hit track, didn’t die from congestive heart failure, but instead he succumbed to complications from having HIV/AIDS.

The Rolling Stone got their hands on Mack’s death certificate which contradicts the report his family led with, saying that the late rapper had congestive heart failure, which everyone accepted as truth. Mack died in 2018.

Now with this report, many have ethical concerns and are asking why Mack’s personal details about his death would be put on display for public consumption, especially when the family held his secret close.

Mack was Bad Boy’s first artist, and helped the musical brand rise in fame with catchy hits that garnered the Queens-born rapper with a Grammy nomination in the early 90s under the tutelage of Sean “Diddy” Combs.

However, Mack did not see much success after his debut Project: Funk da World, in 1994. Instead, he left the limelight and led a quiet life, only resurfacing periodically. He reportedly joined a “cult-like” church of the  Overcomer Ministry. And was once charged with raping two women on the compound. His charges were later reduced to lesser counts of assault and battery according to the Post and Courier.   

“While Mack’s family honored his wishes and repeated his assertion that he had congestive heart failure, Mack’s cause of death was HIV/AIDS, according to his death certificate, and he had refused to seek treatment,” The Rolling Stone reports.

#Clique, did The Rolling Stone go too far with this reporting?