Jasun Wardlaw (April 6, 1973 – October 22, 2003) better known by his stage name Half a Mill, was a

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-based American

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Career

Half a Mill was considered an underground rapper in the early 1990s. His mainstream breakthrough came in 1997 when he scored a guest spot on supergroup

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's only release, '' The Album''.

Personal life and death

Wardlaw would commit

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by shooting himself in the head in Brooklyn's Albany Projects on October 22, 2003. His body was found by police inside his apartment. He left behind a son, Jasun Jabbar Wardlaw Jr., who is a rapper and actor. Half a Mill was the subject of the 2010 full-length documentary '' Player Hating: A Love Story'' by filmmaker

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Discography

References

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