Grammy Award Winning Artist and ‘Belly’ Actor Louie Rankin Dies in Car Crash

Grammy Award Winning Artist and 'Belly' Actor Louie Rankin Dies in Car Crash
Grammy Award Winning Artist and 'Belly' Actor Louie Rankin Dies in Car Crash

Louie Rankin, a Jamaican reggae artist/actor who appeared in DX’s 1998 film Belly, died in a car accident Monday in Ontario, Canada. Rankin was involved in a wreck consisting of a transport truck and another vehicle, TMZ reported.

Rankin, nicknamed the ‘Original Don Dada,’ was a Grammy-winner for his 1992 track Typewriter.

Rankin appeared in the movie Belly with Nas, Method Man and TLC’s Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins; in the film, he played a drug lord named Ox.

He went on to appear in motion pictures including 2002’s Shottas, 2014’s We Run These Streets and the 2015 short film Q, according to iMDb.

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