H. Rap Brown was born on 4 October 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. He was married to Lynne M. Doswell aka Karima. He died on 23 November 2025 in Butner, North Carolina, USA.
Brown changed his name when he converted to the Dar-ul Islam movement
in the '70s while serving a five-year sentence for his role in a
robbery that ended in a shootout with New York police.
