Antron Singleton (born September 15, 1976), better known by his stage name Big Lurch, is an American rapper, poet and convicted murderer.
[1] Singleton started his rap career as a member of the hip hop group Cosmic Slop Shop.
The group fell apart in 1999, after releasing their album Da Family (1998), and Singleton pursued a solo career which was cut short in 2002, when he murdered his roommate Tynisha Ysais.
[4] On April 10, 2002, 25-year-old Singleton murdered his 21-year-old roommate[5] Tynisha Ysais in the apartment he shared with her and her boyfriend[6] in Los Angeles, California.
[11][12] The suit charged that the labels had provided Singleton with drugs "to encourage [him] to act out in an extreme violent manner so as to make him more marketable as a 'gangsta rap' artist.