Rapper Shawty Lo killed in car crash aged 40

The southern hip-hop star had been promoting his latest single, a tribute to his deceased father, in a strip club and was killed in a road accident on the way backThe Atlanta rap star Shawty Lo was killed in a fiery car crash in the early hours of Wednesday after his vehicle left a freeway and struck trees.
The artist, whose real name was Carlos Walker, came to fame as a talented force in the southern hip-hop movement that rose up to rival the rap scenes of New York and Los Angeles in the last 2