I don't mean it as an insult to his memory or anything, to be clear. I was just commenting on the "his death will be overshadowed"/"in the UK" thing. I was just agreeing that, yes, he's getting a lot less coverage over here.
And no, I'm not a huge hip hop fan, but I am an avid follower of news and I get updates from....roughly a dozen different sources on all kinds of topics? Even the celeb media magazines didn't mention it, nor the general music website - a,nd yes, it does also cover hiphop.
I don't really know why, either. I mean, I've heard of him. He's never gotten big in Belgium, but I think he's been in charts a few times. I wouldn't expect a huge amount of coverage as if Michael Jackson died, but it's been hard to even find an article that he's dead! Really weird.