The longtime West Coast hip-hop fixture DJ Crazy Toones has died, as Pitchfork reports. Crazy Toones was the brother of the Los Angeles rap legend WC, and he got his start in his brother's group WC And The Maad Circle, which also featured a young Coolio. Crazy Toones also produced and put together mixtapes on his own, and he put in years as Ice Cube's DJ. He was 45.
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R.I.P. DJ Crazy Toones
CHICAGO – September 13: DJ Crazy Toones performs at the House Of Blues during Ice Cube’s “Raw Footage” tour in Chicago, Illinois on September 13, 2008. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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