His mother is now suffering with Lupus (in addition to a nearly lifelong battle with epilepsy), his one-year-old nephew tragically died in a car crash just a few weeks before the release of K.O.D. “Technicians”) who made it possible for Tech with his last solo release, 2008’s double-disc Killer, to reach the monumental mark of scanning over one million albums total for his nearly-decade’s worth of solo offerings.īut it’s hard for Tech to fully enjoy his historic success when so much personal darkness has engulfed his life of late. After selling 30,000 copies of his new full-length, K.O.D., in just the first week of the album’s release (a feat even most major-label artists can’t seem to pull off these days), the self-proclaimed “King of Darkness,” Tech N9ne, should be enjoying the fruits of the relentless tour grind that has helped the Kansas City rapid-fire rhymer secure a dedicated following of well over a 100,000 loyal supporters (a.ka. The best-selling independent Hip Hop artist in the world should be in complete celebratory mode right about now.

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