Houston Rapper Big Moe Passes Away, Heart Attack Suspected

After a week-long stay in an area hospital, local Houston legend Big Moe reportedly died this past Sunday (October 14). According to the Houston Chronicle, Bryan McLeod, a spokesman for the county public hospital system, said that Big Moe (born Kenneth Moore), 33,died Sunday afternoon at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital. While McLeod did not release a cause of death, many sources are speculating that the obese rapper suffered a heart attack. The rapper released three solo albums during his career, City Of Syrup, Purple World and 2003's Moe Life and he was known for his collaborations with fellow Houston artists including Mike Jones, Z-Ro and **** C. Though he had some national solo success with Purple World, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hip-Hop charts, Moe will largely be remembered as a member of the pioneering H-Town collective the Screwed Up Click - formerly headed by the late DJ Screw, who passed away from a heart attack in 2000 after a reported **** of codeine-laced cough syrup. "He was a great influence to the music community here in Houston," said Swishahouse Records founder Michael "5000" Watts. "He was a good person and one of the founding fathers of the music movement here." Details on the rapper's funeral arrangements have yet to be released. [For more on Big Moe peep SOHH Dirty]