Poetic died of colon cancer on July 15, 2001, 1:45 pm EST at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California,  five weeks before Nightmare in A-Minor's scheduled release.
Poetic lost his life to colon cancer on July 15, 2001, 1:45 pm EST at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, mere weeks before the anticipated release of Nightmare in A-Minor.