The seventh and eighth songs to reach #1 posthumously were both rap features.

In 2004, Soulja Slim appeared on a Juvenile song called ‘Slow Motion,‘ released several months after Soulja’s shooting death the previous November. He also co-wrote the track.

That makes three shootings in a row (following John Lennon and The Notorious B.I.G.) for these posthumous hitmakers, after two plane crashes (Otis Redding, Jim Croce) and a drug overdose (Janis Joplin). Ah, the life of a rock star.

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