LOGIN Black Rob Tributes Pour in From LL Cool J, Biz Markie and More: ‘This Hit My Heart’ Former Bad Boy Records artist suffered a series of strokes over the last six yearsUmberto Gonzalez | April 17, 2021 @ 4:36 PM Last Updated: April 17, 2021 @ 4:37 PM Black Rob in 2017=6 (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Live Nation) Tributes for former Bad Boy Records artist Black Rob poured in on Saturday as the “Whoa!” rapper is being remembered as “one of the great millennium-era crime rap novelists.” “RIP Black Rob, one of the great millennium-era crime rap novelists, gruff but with Harlem slickness, who endured fire & brimstone to briefly reach the apex, before gravity and the law took hold. Of course, “Whoa,” which owned the world for a full year, the platonic tunnel banger,” wrote legendary rapper Biz Markie.