DJ Unk‘s reason for dying has been revealed … the Atlanta rapper died from a coronary heart assault … TMZ has realized.

Unk’s spouse, Sherkita Lengthy-Platt tells TMZ he died in his sleep on January 24 after struggling cardiac arrest. She says the household is conscious of varied rumors going round as to how he died … and she or he desires folks to know the reality. She tells us hypothesis he died from medication is just not true as he did not do medication.

We’re advised a candlelight vigil is going down later in the present day in his Atlanta neighborhood.

As we reported … Sherkita shared the information of his dying on Fb on Friday writing … “Please respect me and my household. I simply misplaced my husband and my children simply misplaced their father. Our life won’t ever be the identical. I LOVE YOU ANTHONY FOREVER”

He obtained his begin within the late Nineteen Nineties, ultimately forming Southern Model DJs with DJ Montay and DJ Jelly. Unk obtained signed to Large Oomp Data in 2000.

He had been coping with unspecified well being points in 2009 which affected his profession. He launched a pair extra singles within the following years.

He was solely 43.