Rapper Boss, whose real name is Lichelle Laws, has died. She was 54. (Raymond Boyd / Getty Images) Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam's first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized ...

Bo$$ will forever be known in the annals of Hip-Hop for being the first female rapper signed to Def Jam. The community learned that the “I Don’t Give A F**k” rapper has passed away this week. Bun B ...

Trailblazing rapper Boss, who brought West Coast gangsta rap fervor to the Def Jam Recordings roster in the early 1990s, has died. No cause of death has been revealed. She was 54. News of the Detroit ...

On Monday (March 11), reports surfaced in the hip-hop community that 1990's rapper Bo$$ had passed away. Her former record label, Def Jam Recordings, confirmed the passing in an Instagram post on ...

Although Boss was the first female rapper signed to the short-lived Def Jam West division of the groundbreaking label, she was originally born in Detroit. She relocated to Los Angeles after graduating ...

The Def Jux offices look about how you’d expect: Chelsea office building, lots of exposed brick, a big graffiti piece on the wall, iMacs everywhere. There are no cubicles; everyone’s desk is just ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam’s first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam's first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws's older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper's ...

Lichelle Laws, who became Def Jam West’s first female wrapper under her stage name of BO$$, died Monday in a Michigan hospital. She was 54. A family spokesperson told The Detroit News that Laws died ...