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Reggie 'Combat Jack' Ossé, Hip-Hop Journalist And Podcaster, Dies At 48

Entertainment lawyer-turned-hip-hop podcaster Reggie Ossé started his interview show, The Combat Jack Show, on a lark, but it turned into an essential document of rap in the Internet age. He was 48.
Reggie "Combat Jack" Ossé attends the Spotify Mogul launch party in May 2017. The hip-hop personality has passed away at the age of 48.

Reggie Ossé, better known to the hip-hop world as podcast host Combat Jack, has passed away from colon cancer. Chris Morrow, Ossé's friend and his co-founder of Loud Speaker Networks, confirmed his death, telling NPR that he died this morning at Mount Sinai Beth Israel

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