Died On This Date (December 16, 2011) Slim Dunkin / Rapper with 1017 Brick Squad, Brick Squad Monopoly

Slim Dunkin (Born Mario Hamilton)
DOB Unknown – December 16, 2011

Slim Dunkin was an up-and-coming rapper who was part of the hip-hop collective, 1017 Brick Squad / Brick Squad Monopoly.  Formed in Atlanta in 2008, the group also includes Waka Flocka Flame, Wooh Da Kid, OJ Da JuicemanFrenchie, and Gucci Mane, who has since become the CEO and leader of the group.  Dunkin can be heard on several Waka Flocka Flame recordings as well as his own, and had just completed a 20-song mixtape.  During the evening hours of December 16, 2011, Slim Dunkin was working in an Atlanta recording studio when he reportedly got into an argument with another individual.  The altercation escalated to the point where Dunkin was believed to have been shot in the chest.  He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.  The presumed assailant remained unidentified in the immediate aftermath.

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Died On This Date (December 16, 2011) Jennifer Miro / The Nuns

Jennifer Miro (Born Jennifer Anderson)
May 3, 1957 – December 16, 2011

Jennifer Miro was a keyboardist and singer who played in the pioneering San Francisco punk band, the Nuns.  Formed in 1975, the band, which included Alejandro Escovedo and Jeff Olener, brought on Miro who had grown tired of playing in a local Doobie Brothers cover band.  The band quickly found its audience with the Bay Area’s underground punk lovers, and on January 14, 1978, they found themselves opening for the Sex Pistols‘ final concert at the legendary Winterland Ballroom.  For a brief time, the Nuns were managed by Bill Graham, but they parted ways due to Graham reportedly taking offense to their song, “Decadent Jew.” After the Nuns broke up in 1979, Miro played with the VIPs and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a solo career.  She also worked with Narada Michael Walden and later found some success as a fetish model.  The Nuns reunited a couple of times during the ’80s and late ’90s.  On December 16, 2011, Jennifer Miro died from complications of liver and breast cancer.  She was 54.

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