The household of rapper Theophilus London filed a lacking individuals report with Los Angeles police this week and are asking for the general public’s assist, saying he hasn’t been seen in months.
London’s household and associates imagine somebody final spoke to the musician in July in Los Angeles, based on the household’s assertion launched Wednesday from Secretly, a music label group that has labored with London. His kinfolk have been making an attempt to find out his whereabouts over the previous few weeks and filed a police report earlier this week, the assertion mentioned.
In a news launch Wednesday evening, the LAPD offered a special timeline for his disappearance, stating that London was final seen within the Skid Row space of downtown L.A. at round midday on Oct. 15, including that “family members lost complete contact with him in October.”
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The LAPD confirmed to CBS News {that a} lacking individuals report for London was filed Tuesday, however no additional particulars had been offered. London was not but listed on the LAPD’s on-line lacking individuals database as of Wednesday night.
“Theo, your Dad loves you, son,” his father, Lary Moses London, mentioned within the assertion. “We miss you. And all your friends and relatives are searching for you. Wherever you are send us some signal. No matter what we will come get you son.”
London posted prolifically on Instagram, however his final posts additionally got here in July.
London, 35, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and later raised within the Brooklyn borough of New York. He was nominated for a 2016 Grammy for finest rap efficiency for a featured spot alongside Paul McCartney on Kanye West’s “All Day.”
London has regularly collaborated with West, the artist now often called Ye, who produced and guested on 2014’s “Vibes.” London would typically put up updates on Ye’s “Donda” and “Donda 2” on Instagram, even sayingthat he was “promoted to tackle media duties” on Ye’s behalf for the month of February.
London himself has launched three studio albums — 2011’s “Timez Are Weird These Days,” “Vibes” and 2020’s “Bebey.” He just lately was a featured artist on Young Franco’s “Get Your Money,” launched this previous September — after his household says he was final heard from.
While “Vibes” was a Warner Records launch, whereas “Bebey” was launched on London’s personal label, My Bebey Records.
“I wanted to see what a sense of family is, a sense of me having a plot of land, building a house on my own land, instead of sleeping at a hotel for the rest of my life,” he informed Complex of branching out on his personal in 2020.