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West Coast Rapper MC Supreme Dies In A Car Crash

West Coast rapper MC Supreme, known for his ‘90s hit, “Black in America,” was struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver along the Pacific Coast Highway in southern California.

The emcee, real name Dewayne Coleman, was sitting in a parked Honda Civic next to the ocean in Malibu around 6:20 a.m. Saturday when Philip Thomas Torres II, 34, swerved his GMC pickup off the roadway near Corral Canyon Road and struck the car.

The truck rolled into a second truck, whose occupants were uninjured.

Torres and his passenger were uninjured while the 47-year-old rapper died and his female passenger was hospitalized with moderate injuries, officials said.

Coleman found moderate success in the 1990s with his hit “Black in America,” which Mike Tyson used as he walked in for one of his heavyweight bouts, the deceased rapper’s sister told the City News Service.

He also performed with the West Coast Rap All-Stars, including N.W.A, MC Hammer and Ice-T, in the anti-violence song, “All in the Same Gang.” The group once performed on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” Irene Coleman told the news service.

“He was a positive person, dedicated to working with young people” to keep them out of gangs, she said.

The accident scene was at the same spot that Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn Jenner, was involved in a fatal February crash that left Kim Howe dead. The 69-year-old victim’s family has sued Jenner for wrongful death.

The stretch is a particularly deadly one that has recently been the site of a study intended to improve safety along the roadway. About nine people have died in some 1,000 collisions in the last three full years, according to a draft of the study obtained by KTLA-TV.

And just over the weekend, a 15-year-old was hit and killed by a car Saturday night in Huntington Beach while walking on the roadway, while two motorcyclists were airlifted with injuries in separate crashes Sunday.

The actor Rob Lowe, who grew up in the southern California enclave, tweeted that the highway has always been a hazard that must be fixed.

“PCH’s been a death trap for decades,” he wrote on Twitter Sunday night. “No local care to address it. Sad and unacceptable.”

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