{"id":780685,"date":"2026-07-23T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780685\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:35:17","slug":"legendary-philadelphia-spoken-word-artist-and-hip-hop-poet-lamar-black-ice-manson-dies-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780685\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Philadelphia spoken word artist and hip-hop poet Lamar &#8216;Black Ice&#8217; Manson dies at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 23, 2026 8:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Philadelphia spoken word artist and hip-hop poet Lamar &#8216;Black Ice&#8217; Manson dies at 54<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A legendary Philadelphia spoken-word artist and hip-hop poet has passed away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lamar Manson, better known by his stage name Black Ice, died on Wednesday surrounded by loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He is widely recognized as the first poet signed to Def Jam Records and as a star of the Def Poetry Jam TV and Broadway shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Manson was a Tony-, Peabody-, and Emmy Award-winning artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He was 54 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 23, 2026 8:30PM Legendary Philadelphia spoken word artist and hip-hop poet Lamar &#8216;Black Ice&#8217; Manson dies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[332458,88,216],"class_list":["post-780685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-332458","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780685","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=780685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}