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Rapper Tim Dog Faked His Own Death So He Wouldn't Get Sent To Jail?

Did Tim Dog really pass away in February from diabetes-related problems? A woman is claiming that the rapper faked his own death in order to avoid court ordered payments.

WREG reports that a Mississippi judge has an issued an arrest warrant for Tim Dog, real name Timothy Blair, who supposedly died in February.

Before his alleged death, Blair was convicted of scamming Esther Pilgrim out of $19,000. Blair was ordered to make $100 payments until the debt was paid off but his death put a damper on that payment plan.

Pilgrim, however, doesn’t believe that Dog is actually dead.

Pilgrim said: “There was nothing of what you would normally find. What city? Who found him? There was nothing with any type of concrete details.”

Pilgrim says that she isn’t the only woman that Dog owes money to. According to Pilgrim, the rapper scammed several woman in 2011 and owes more than $2 million.

Hernando Prosecutor Steven Jubera said: “I need proof … I need a death certificate showing that’s he’s dead because as far as I’m concerned, he’s alive.”

Dog’s death was reported on hip-hop sites like The Source but those articles have been removed since the rapper’s alleged passing. Jubera said that all of the obituaries he has seen about the rapper’s death are very vague on details.

Jubera said: “Nobody said where he died, nobody said where he was buried, which is very odd for an obituary.”

Jubera and Pilgrim aren’t the only two people who are skeptical about Dog’s death. One of the rapper’s closest colleagues, Ced Gee, said that he refused to speak at Dog’s funeral because the family could not provide a death certificate