John Forté, the rapper and producer who emerged as a key contributor to the mid 1990s New York hip-hop scene and close collaborator of Fugees , was found dead at his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on Monday (January 12), The Associated Press reports . There was no sign of foul play or a “readily apparent cause of death,” Sean Slavin, the Chilmark police chief, said in a statement, adding that the state medical examiner’s office would investigate. Forté was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in