The former Eight Trey Gangster Crips member-turned-motivational speaker, who was also known as Monster Kody, reportedly died at the age of 57, but the cause of death has yet to be revealed.
- Jun 9, 2021
AceShowbiz - Vince Staples and Glasses Malone are mourning the death of Sanyika Shakur a.k.a Monster Cody. After it was revealed that the former Eight Trey Gangster Crips member-turned-motivational speaker died at the age of 57, the two rappers took to social media to offer tributes to him.
Making use of Twitter on Tuesday, June 8, the "Norf Norf" spitter shared a photo of Shakur with a message that read, "Rest In Peace." The 41-year-old MC, meanwhile, penned on his own Twitter page, "damn cuh.... r.i.p monster kody."
No further information about Shakur's death is available. The cause of his death has yet to be revealed as well.
Shakur joined the Los Angeles gang in the mid-1970s when he was still 13 years old. He earned the name Monster after beating up a robbery victim when he was still at that age. At that time, he was under the mentorship of Tookie Williams.
Shakur's street life eventually led him to get arrested in the 1980s. It was the turning point for the late author as he decided to join the Republic of New Afrika movement and changed his name to Saniyka Shakur.
Shakur documented his life in a memoir called "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member." In the book, he wrote, "I was a criminal. I became a revolutionary. And people expected me to commit class suicide as a successful writer and become a noted author, and to me, I didn't want to go that way. I didn't want to be the go to guy when they said, 'What about gangs?' Because that's not what it's about."
Shakur, whose real name was Kody Dejohn Scott, also befriended Tupac Shakur in the 1990s. He then maintained a close relationship with the "Changes" rapper until he passed away in September 1996.
