{"id":457962,"date":"2026-02-09T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:17:13","slug":"e-40-delivers-most-heartfelt-condolences-to-lil-jon-after-sons-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457962\/","title":{"rendered":"E-40 Delivers Most Heartfelt Condolences to Lil Jon After Son’s Tragic Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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E-40<\/a>, like all of us, is still reeling from the tragic and sudden loss of Lil Jon<\/a>‘s son Nathan Smith, AKA DJ Young Slade … and he had a heartfelt message for the mourning father when we caught up with him last night.<\/p>\n

The Bay area legend sent his deepest condolences from the Fanatics party in San Francisco, adding, “We were just on ‘Family Feud’ together, all of us.”<\/p>\n

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The rappers, along with their family members, made an appearance on the game show last year.<\/p>\n

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E-40 and Lil Jon know each other well, having linked up for one of the biggest hits of the early 2000s — “Snap Yo Fingers.”<\/p>\n

So E-40 reached out to his collaborator, looking straight into the camera to deliver this direct message … “Lil Jon, anything you need that I can provide, I’m here for you. I love you, and you know that, brother. And we’re going to miss nephew.”<\/p>\n

As we reported … Nathan was pronounced dead<\/a> Friday afternoon at 27 years old. His body was found just days after he went missing<\/a> from his home in Georgia. Authorities began the search for him Tuesday and, unfortunately, discovered him in a pond near his residence.<\/p>\n

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It remains unclear how Nathan ended up in the pond … but the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZ.com E-40, like all of us, is still reeling from the tragic and sudden loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4,88,483,216,3,484],"class_list":["post-457962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}