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Dominic "The Jacka" Newton, one of the most popular rappers in the San Francisco Bay Area's sprawling underground rap scene, was murdered in East Oakland, California on Monday night. He was 37 years old.
Emerging in the late 1990s as part of the Mob Figaz collective, the Jacka evolved into a solo star with street albums like 2005's The Jack Artist. In 2009, he scored his biggest hit, Tear Gas, which reached Number 12 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart and produced the regional anthem, "Glamorous Lifestyle."
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