Magoo Dies: Rapper Who Teamed With Timbaland & Worked With Missy Elliott Was 50
deadline.comMelvin “Magoo” Barcliff, one half of the rap duo Timbaland & Magoo who had a hit “Up Jumps Da Boogie” from their platinum 1997 debut album Welcome to Our World, has died at 50.
Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley and others confirmed the news on social media but did not give details. Timbaland & Magoo met as teenagers in Norfolk, VA and broke out with “Up Jumps Da Boogie,” which featured Missy Elliott and Aaliyah and reached No.
12 on the Billboard Hot 100. It made the Top 5 of the R&B chart as the album rose to No. 33. Another single from the disc, “Clock Strikes,” reached the pop Top 40 and No.
24 on the R&B tally. The duo’s follow-up album, 2001’s Indecent Proposal, peaked at No. 29 and sold more than 350,000 copies but failed to spawn a chart single.
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