Chynna Rogers

Chynna Marie Rogers (August 19, 1994 – April 8, 2020), known mononymously as Chynna, was an American rapper, disc jockey, and model who was signed by Ford Modeling Agency at the age of 14 and affiliated with the ASAP Mob.
Career.
Her association with ASAP Mob began through ASAP Yams, whom she had approached on Twitter. After hanging outside music studios she became his intern. She struggled with addiction throughout her career; her mentor, Yams, died in 2015 of an accidental drug overdose and after a period of sobriety, her mother, Wendy Payne died in 2017. In an interview with Pitchfork in January 2018, she described how the pressures of the music industry had played a part in her addiction: 'I felt that I hadn’t gone through enough terrible stuff to deserve to have this as a career. I didn’t feel like I deserved to be making a living off talking about my life yet because I just couldn’t relate to enough people.'
Rogers released the singles "Selfie" (2013) and "Glen Coco" (2014). These were followed by her first EP, "I'm Not Here, This Isn't Happening" in 2015 then "Music 2 Die 2" in 2016. Her final EP, "In Case I Die First" was released in 2019.
Some of her frequent producer collaborators were Cloud Atrium, Heaven in Stereo or 5TH DMNSN.
Her song "stupkid", was released posthumously on what would have been her 26th birthday, August 19, 2020.
Personal life.
Rogers was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she attended Julia R. Masterman School. She was in a relationship with New Jersey rapper Dash from H'z Global, which ended after two years in 2016.
She got signed as a model at the age of 14 and kept modeling until she was 16. Her modeling career was anecdotic, and was never a dream of hers, but something she did while studying. One of her plans after finishing high school was to join the Military in order to get a pilot license, but she couldn't make the weight requirements for her height to get in.
Not getting any scholarships, she discarded going to college. And it was at this point that she started taking music more seriously, as a career path.
In 2012, she moved out of Philadelphia, after graduating from High School. At that time, emo-rock bands such as Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the disco, Paramore, or hardcore and death metal bands such as Alesana or Meshuggah, were some of her musical influences as a teenager. But she had built a curiosity for all kinds of genres and was exposed to Hip-Hop since her childhood.
As she put it in her own words: "I think there's too many soundtracks to our lives, I need music to die to", could be the moto behind Chynna's musical career. Her imagery often exploring the dark emotions and sides of one's soul, diving into the depths of drug addiction, overdose and pain in all its nuances, in a belief that those emotions are also part of our lives and that through this darkness we can tap into parts of one's self that otherwise we wouldn't be able to see, as she explained to The Fader for the release of her EP "Ninety", celebrating her 90 days of sobriety.
All through middle school, and forth, Chynna had developed an interest in writing, that she cultivated with the idea of creating a book, or novel. She kept writing unfinished stories, but it didn't develop into writing full songs until her high school years. It was right after leaving high school that she recorded her first song in a friend's basement, "Selfie".
She adhered to Buddhism as a philosophy and way of living, and believed in the force of crystals for transforming energies.
Rogers was found dead on April 8, 2020, of an accidental drug overdose. Her death in the peak of her career was echoed by main media and music magazines around the world, as well as mourned in social media by her peers in the game.