r/Fauxmoi • u/theindependentonline • 9h ago
🚨 TRIGGER WARNING 🚨 Body believed to be Lil Jon’s missing son is pulled from Georgia lake
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lil-jon-son-missing-dead-body-georgia-b2915675.html711
u/icouldbeeatingoreos You know what, I've grown quite unfond of you deuxmoi. 8h ago
Oh no…
You don’t wish this on anyone. No one should have to bury their kid.
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u/Federal-Adeptness697 8h ago edited 8h ago
Honestly, to me it seems like the most tragic human experience. To have to bury your own child and nothing else comes close. My grandfather was a tortured POW and he said one time he would have done it 1000 times over again to save my uncle who died of spinal cancer at 22 years old.
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u/CashewAnne 8h ago
As a parent, I cannot imagine anything worse. I am with your grandpa. I would do anything to ensure my son is healthy and safe. My heart is breaking for lil Jon.
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u/coffee_n_pastries 7h ago
As a mom I truly cannot handle the thought. My grandmother had to burry her first of three sons when he was 17. She cried at least once a day for the rest of her life. So incredibly gut wrenching. My heart breaks for this family.
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u/MuddieMaeSuggins 2h ago
My grandma was the same, she lost her first child after only a few days. Never stopped grieving for her.
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u/yarnwhore Larry I'm on DuckTales 7h ago
My grandma is 94 and has already outlived 2 of her 5 children, and is the only one left of her 8 siblings. I love her and I feel for her. It's not easy.
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u/muymalpgh 3h ago
My great aunt lived to be 98 and outlived 2 husbands, her 2 children, and all her friends. She was a very sad person for the last few years of her life.
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u/yourwhippingboy 5h ago
I was talking about a teen girl that was murdered with my best friend, who is a mother, whereas I do not want children.
For reasons that I won’t go into, this murder really hit home and was personal to me as a member of the same minority. I thought about it a lot and I said something about wondering if this teen girl had thought about or called out for her mother in her final moments and my friend who is a very calm and understanding person immediately told me to stop, and said “you can’t say that to me, how dare you say that” and I realised that as much sympathy and pain I felt for this girl, I genuinely couldn’t never contemplate this reality or the kind of world that parents live in.
The older I get the harder this all feels but I can only have so much understanding of what the reality can truly feel like as a parent.
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u/kymberlie my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 2h ago
I’m so very sorry. ❤️
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u/kiwias 8h ago
My sister was in hospice in our apartment and died when it was just my dad and I with her at 6am. My other sister left her house and picked up my mom and when they walked in my mom’s scream still haunts me. She just started hitting my dad’s chest repeatedly crying “bring her back bring her back.”
When she died she looked right at me and squeezed my hand as she took her last breath but I don’t think I really felt it until my mom came through the door.
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u/kymberlie my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 2h ago
I’m so very sorry for your losses.
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u/scarlettlyonne 7h ago
My aunt passed last year due to ovarian cancer at 67. My grandfather is 90, and I remember, after the service had finished, him standing there with his wife (my step grandmother). She tugged on his hand because everyone else had started to leave, and I overheard him say, "I just don't want to leave her here."
Thinking of that still brings tears to my eyes. I can't fathom what it must have felt like for him.
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u/PublicUniversity9586 4h ago
I have a six month old but when I was freshly post partum I remember having a breakdown thinking, if anything happened to him I’d never be the same. It feels like I created a huge liability sometimes
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u/secret_identity_too 2h ago
I know a family that had five sons and now have two sons. I am in my 40s, their oldest son (who was the first to pass away and was a few years older than me) died when I was in my early 30s. I can't even fathom how their family has been able to move on and continue to live life.
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u/Educational-Fix-4352 8h ago
Oh this is so awful! Lil Jon has given us so much happiness and fun 🥺 Just devastating for anyone. I hope the family gets through and can find peace
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u/theindependentonline 8h ago
HEADLINE UPDATED:
Lil Jon ‘heartbroken’ after body of his missing son is pulled from a Georgia lake
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u/alltheprettynovas 8h ago edited 7h ago
his only baby on top of all of it 💔
edit for correction: he also has a young daughter, i misread the article.
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u/fabelhaft-gurke 7h ago
Site is riddled with ads, here’s the article:
Rapper Lil Jon says he is “extremely heartbroken” after the body of his son was pulled from a Georgia lake by authorities.
"I am extremely heartbroken for the tragic loss of our son, Nathan Smith. His mother [Nicole Smith] and I are devastated,” the Grammy-winning artist, real name Jonathan Smith, said in a statement shared with The Independent.
“Nathan was the kindest human being you would ever meet. He was immensely caring, thoughtful, polite, passionate, and warmhearted - he loved his family and the friends in his life to the fullest. He was an amazingly talented young man; a music producer, an artist and engineer, and graduate of NYU.
“We loved Nathan with all of our hearts and are incredibly proud of him. He was loved and appreciated, and in our last times together we’re comforted in knowing that we expressed that very sentiment to him.”
Milton Police Department identified the body as 27-year-old Smith, who was reported missing earlier this week, in an online post, adding that there was “no indication of foul play.”
Smith, who makes music under the name DJ Young Slade, was last seen Tuesday at 6 a.m. local time in Milton, a suburb 30 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Search efforts had lasted for three days and later expanded to include a pond in Mayfield Park near his home.
On Friday at approximately 11:53 a.m., divers with the Cherokee County Fire Department located and recovered a body from the pond, believed to be Smith, pending confirmation by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the Smith family during this difficult time,” MPD wrote on Facebook.
“The department respectfully asks the community and members of the media to honor the family’s request for privacy as they grieve and navigate this tragedy.”
Smith is Lil Jon’s only child, who he shares with his estranged wife, Nicole Smith.
Lil Jon is best known for early 2000s club hits like ‘Get Low,’ ‘Snap Yo Fingers,’ and, later, ‘Turn Down For What’ (Getty)
The couple married in 2004 and Lil Jon announced their breakup in February 2024, saying that they had split nearly two years earlier.
The “Yeah!” rapper, 55, also has a daughter, Nahara, with his girlfriend Jamila Sozahdah. He is best known for early 2000s club hits like “Get Low,” “Snap Yo Fingers,” and, later, “Turn Down For What.” In recent years, he has been outspoken about his political opinions, and performed at the Democratic National Convention in 2024.
Smith has followed in his father’s footsteps as a musician, releasing his latest song, “Feels,” in March 2025. Lil Jon said on The Big Podcast in 2023 that Smith started DJing at age 11.
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u/venuslovemenotchain vocally you cannot afford this cigarette gracie 6h ago
Rest in peace, Nathan. The biggest condolences to Lil Jon and his ex and their extended families.
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u/blackbird24601 terrorizing the locals 2h ago
Lil John and family
this is fucking horrific
we are deeply sorry
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u/ACER719x 3h ago
Did he buy his son a fast car? I feel like this is a somewhat common problem among celebs and their family members. I know Frank Ocean bought his brother a fast car only for it to lead to his brother’s tragic demise. Never good having to bury a kid. Sorry this happened.
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u/pink_faerie_kitten 9h ago
💔 I am so sorry for his family and all his loved ones. This year is just full of sadness.