Is this the right place for this post? The brother was a stalwart of this board for two decades and.... now he's gone.

I can see that he was still posting here until pretty recently. He went missing last week. And now he's been confirmed deceased.

And I'm really sad.

I'll miss his crazy ass.

I miss a lot of you guys too. Hope you've been taking care of yourselves.

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Back when he used to post as skilletbome. He was a big LL fan and used to post things like “makes MCs wanna choke themselves with their own mic cords!” Lol

Damn, sad news. He seemed like a good dude.

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A true music lover, and a solid dude. Never met him or even talked to him but we shared a ton of music with each other for years..came to know him through social media to be a really decent dude.

You know the love of music is what brought us all together. We shared that here for a very long time... and what a time it was.

Peace and blessings.

We had been trading music for years, and clearly so had maybe hundreds of people. I would often wonder how did he have time to listen to it? He could give you a detailed breakdown of the most obscure music, from the most obscure artists.

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Days like this I miss Sha Mecca

Thanks for checking back in and sharing this with us.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

Thanks for letting us know.

Sad to hear

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we were pretty much in daily contact on social media. it was pretty effed up to hear from family members that he had gone missing.

I had been posting here for years, and so had he, not knowing who each other was. In one post I mentioned having attended Towers HIgh School, here in Decatur, GA. He inboxed me, and we figured out we knew each other. He had been a few years behind me in school, and he actually grew up in the same subdivision as my wife.

That began a decade long back and forth about music, comics, movies...etc. Deron was a blerd of the highest magnitude, and it was great. I thought I was into music....but that dude...

Especially 80s-90s R&B. We often traded music and he would hit me up with the most obscure requests, "Reg, do you have Cheryl Pepsi Riley's third album?" My responses were usually,"Dude, does anybody?"

There was some geeky nerdiness there, but dude was so passionate about stuff, that he made it endearing.

I didn't realize what a fixture of my life he had become until I started seeing the posts on social media trying to find his whereabouts. Deron posted on social media constantly. To the extent that I often wondered how he got day to day stuff done. He was a member of every jazz, neosoul, R&B, Black history, indie comics, animation, cinema, blerd culture, cosplay...etc. Facebook group imaginable. You could stumble onto something randomly and see that he posts there. So, when he had stopped, people everywhere were making, "Hey, has anyone seen Deron," posts.

I texted him, to no response. I knew something was wrong, but kept hoping he would just turn up, maybe saying, he had just taken a break from the internet...highly unlikely...

Details are still sketchy on exactly what happened. A family member simply posted on FB, thanking everyone for their concern, but letting everyone know that he was gone. The response is amazing; heartfelt posts from musicians, writers and artists from various genres, all of them expressing how he had touched their lives or their craft in one way or another.

That brother was truly loved. I can only hope he knew that when he left us.

Rest in Peace, Deron Edwards

Thanks for sharing all of this - very appreciated and very sorry for your loss. I know OKP will miss him for sure.


-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

''i went from bashful to asshole to international''- CdoubleO

he put me on to a lot of music, so his recommendations will be missed.



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.....reading some of our inbox discussions from over a decade ago about his disgust for CDs made me smile ...really miss those days when this place was super active and we were much younger ..RIP tapedeck

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RIP

I pray that his family and friends find their ways to grieve their loss.

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RIP

peace to you too, man.

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

I don't think I talked much with him but I definitely remember the poster, his knowledge of older R&b and that his love for the cassette medium predated the hipster revival. R.I.P.

rest well.

https://digife.com

Again great o see a lot of classic names in here... sucks that it’s for this reason.

Peace & blessings and no Dolby in heaven.

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So sorry to hear this news. As others have mentioned, I appreciated his obvious love for R&B music and maintenance of the annual Soul Music thread/post.

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*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

Another OKP Lessonhead gone, rest in power to Tapedeck.

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same deal...SPIRIT LIVES FOREVER.

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