44-Year-Old Black N Mild, New Orleans Bounce DJ, Dies of the CoronaVirus.

Black N Mild (Olivers Stokes Jr.) died from the CoronaVirus

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The coronavirus has claimed the life of a prominent New Orleans bounce DJ and radio personality.

Black N Mild, according to multiple media reports, died Thursday after a positive coronavirus test. Black N Mild, who was born Oliver Stokes Jr., was 44 years old.

According to an obituary in Billboard, Stokes is known for bringing bounce music — a brand of New Orleans hip-hop — to the radio.

Stokes’ “Rhythm and Bounce” show aired on Saturday nights from 2013 to 2017 on the New Orleans AM station WBOK.

A father of four, he also worked at a charter school in New Orleans, where he served as a counselor. He left school with a fever on March 9.

A report by nola.com — the online home of the New Orleans Times-Picayune — said Stokes chronicled the early stages of his illness on social media. He checked in to a local hospital on March 9 with a temperature of 102.4 degrees.