The rapper died on April 8 The cause of Philadelphia rising rapper Chynna’s death has been confirmed by officials. The 25-year-old rapper and model, whose full name was Chynna Rogers, was found dead in her home on Wednesday (April 8).
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health have now stated that the star died from an accidental drug overdose. Rogers had struggled with drug addiction in the past and openly reflected on it in her music.
In a 2017 interview, she told Billboard her mixtape ‘Ninety’ was “very reflective of the time I had spent using”. “A lot of it was written at the darkest times of my opiate use,” she said. “I saw sides of myself that I otherwise would have never seen.