Hip-hop is statistically the most dangerous of all musical genres

Hardly a huge surprise to be fair, but the figures to prove it are really interesting all the same. The revelation that a hip-hop artist is more likely to die as a result of a homicide than say, a country music star, is hardly a ground-breaking discovery. That said, an Australian professor at the University of Sydney, Dianna Theodora Kenny, has crunched data regarding the causes of death of musicians broken down by genre and the results are fascinating to say the least. Kenny found, for example, that an incredibly large percentage of hip-hop artists have died as a result of homicide, while musicians from the metal genre were more likely to die of accidental causes than those from other genres. Kenny’s data isn’t exactly rock solid in that she doesn’t account for what exactly differentiates one genre from another, but it still makes for interesting and quite morbid reading. It’s certainly made us think twice about that burgeoning hip-hop career too. H/T The Guardian