Sources report he died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot. Noble was the last member added to the group and was hand picked by rap icon Tupac Shakur to join Outlawz.

Rapper Young Noble, who belonged to the hip-hop group Outlawz and frequently collaborated with Tupac Shakur, has died at age 47.

Outlawz rapper Young Noble, a close collaborator of Tupac Shakur, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 4. He was 47.

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Tupac Shakur collaborator Young Noble has died. The 47-year-old rapper – whose real name was Rufus Lee Cooper III - was a member of hip-hop group Outlawz and frequently collaborated with Shakur ...

Rapper Young Noble, who was a member of Tupac Shakur's hip-hop group Outlawz, died in Atlanta Friday at the age of 47. Noble, whose real name was Rufus Lee Cooper III, died by suicide, TMZ first ...

The Outlawz rapper Young Noble, born Rufus Lee Cooper III, passed away at 47 from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in Atlanta on Friday morning.

Young Noble, a member of rap group the Outlawz and a Tupac Shakur affiliate, has died at the age of 47. The emcee, whose real name is Rufus Lee Cooper III, reportedly took his own life in Atlanta ...

Young Noble, Member of Tupac Shakur’s Outlawz Rap Group, Dies at 47 The rapper made his debut on Shakur’s posthumous album, ‘The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory.' ...

Rap and hip-hop fans who came up through the 1990s and early 2000s know the Outlawz well. The group was associated with the legendary Tupac Shakur, and managed to find their way onto more than a ...