RIP, Cloud-Rap Progenitor Prince Be of P.M. Dawn

by Dave SegalPrince Be, a romantic existentialist supreme.P.M. Dawn MC/producer Prince Be (aka Attrell Cordes) passed away June 17 of renal disease at age 46. Cordes had been afflicted for several years with diabetes; a stroke in 2005 left him partially paralyzed and he subsequently had one leg amputated below his knee. At a time—the early '90s—when hiphop was dominated by violent posturing and hardness über alles, Prince Be dared to be introspective, sensitive, and unabashedly