Rapper Boss, whose real name is Lichelle Laws, has died. She was 54. (Raymond Boyd / Getty Images) Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam's first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized ...

Trailblazing rapper Boss, who brought West Coast gangsta rap fervor to the Def Jam Recordings roster in the early 1990s, has died. No cause of death has been revealed. She was 54. News of the Detroit ...

Boss, the Detroit rapper who was the first woman to sign to Def Jam, has passed away. She was 54 years old. Bun B revealed the news on Monday in a tribute post to Boss—née Lichelle Laws—writing, “Rest ...

Lichelle Laws, the musician who became Def Jam’s first female rapper under the moniker Boss (stylized as Bo$$), has died. She was 54. Laws’s older sister Jovita Cheryl Moffett confirmed the rapper’s ...