{"id":4187,"date":"2026-03-12T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/hip-hop-mourns-the-death-of-dj-lord-sear\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:13:55","slug":"hip-hop-mourns-the-death-of-dj-lord-sear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/hip-hop-mourns-the-death-of-dj-lord-sear\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Mourns The Death of DJ Lord Sear."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ls.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ls.jpg 800w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ls-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ls-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ls-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ls-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SiriusXM reported that legendary hip-hop DJ, rapper, and Shade 45 host Lord Sear (real name Steve Watson) has passed away in a statement on Wednesday (March 11). He was 52. Shade 45 will honor and celebrate Sear, who also went by Stak Cheda, with a tribute episode on Thursday from noon to 4 p.m. ET on SiriusXM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many artists have paid their respects on social media, including Eminem, E-40, Hit-Boy, Fat Joe, Mickey Factz, Rapsody, Tony Yayo, 9th Wonder and Skyzoo, among many others. \u201cGod bless i know him my whole career love you sear,\u201d Fat Joe commented on Instagram in the comments to the announcement, with Lloyd Banks adding, \u201cRest In Peace to my brother LORD SEAR <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1f64f-1f3fd.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1f54a-1.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd4a\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"> thank you <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1f64c.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4c\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSear was one of the greatest people to be around, I will never forget how he made me laugh on our tour together,\u201d Eminem wrote. \u201cOur time on @Shade45 together was always some of my favorite interviews. He made the world a better place and I\u2019m gonna seriously miss that. Rest in peace Lil Trey aka @LordSear!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sear was one of the greatest people to be around, I will never forget how he made me laugh on our tour together. Our time on <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shade45?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Shade45<\/a> together was always some of my favorite interviews. He made the world a better place and I\u2019m gonna seriously miss that. Rest in peace Lil Trey\u2026 <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JXs6mVzPKG\">pic.twitter.com\/JXs6mVzPKG<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eminem\/status\/2031917675044114886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lord Sear\u2019s legacy in hip-hop runs deep. A proud member of the CM family, he first made his mark alongside the hip-hop artist Kurious, before going on to the legendary \u201cStretch and Bobbito\u201d show, touring the world on Eminem\u2019s Anger Management Tour, and spending over 20 years as a cornerstone of the Shade 45 family \u2014 he helped shape the culture at every level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/hip-hop-mourns-the-death-of-dj-lord-sear\/\">Hip-Hop Mourns The Death of DJ Lord Sear.<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/\">Rap Industry: New Hip Hop, Rap Videos, Music, News, &#038; more.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SiriusXM reported that legendary hip-hop DJ, rapper, and Shade 45 host Lord Sear (real name Steve Watson) has passed away&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}