Report: 18 Year Old Emerging Rapper Lil Snupe Killed

New comer Lil Snupe was shot and killed early Thursday morning according to reports. The 18-year-old, real name Addarren Ross, who signed with Meek Mill's Dream Chaser record label last year, was murdered around 4:00 a.m. at the Maplewood Apartments in Winnfield, LA, reports KNOE 8. He was said to have been shot twice.

Snupe told MTV News in February (2013) that Meek Mill signed him shortly after getting his hands on his mixtape. "He was in a van, they was finna pull off. And I went and knocked on the van, on the window. They let the window down, grabbed the mixtape and it was like 10 minutes later, 20 minutes later they called me," he said.

"He was spittin' so much pain, he's from the south with a flow like an east coast guy," Meek told MTV.

A suspect has been identified in the crime. No more details is available.

Check out Lil Snupe's mixtape, Real Ni**a in Charge (R.N.I.C.), which premiered in April.