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Cause of Death Revealed for 29-Year-Old Producer Behind Massive Drake and Travis Scott Hits

Hip-hop producer Tay Keith’s cause of death has been released, with a medical examiner ruling that it was due to a drug overdose.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Three months after his tragic death, medical examiners have revealed the cause of death for beloved hip-hop producer Tay Keith.

According to ABC News, the Grammy-nominated hitmaker—whose legal name is Brytavious Lakeith Chambers—died of a drug overdose. This is per an autopsy report from the Nashville, Tennessee, medical examiner’s office.

They added that Keith’s cause of death was due to a mix of “mitragynine, 7-hydroxy mitragynine, mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, and ketamine toxicity.” The manner of his death was ruled an “accident.” Lastly, they noted that the circumstances of Keith’s death were determined to be the “toxic effects of........

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