Leo DaVincci, a rapper, producer, and music mentor to teens who worked with Guitars Over Guns , died on September 4 after a long illness.

Born Leonardo Mayorga in Nicaragua in 1982, his mother moved him to Miami when he was less than a year old. It wasn't long after that that he fell in love with hip-hop. "At age six, he was listening to 2 Live Crew," his cousin Carlos Martinez reminisced to New Times . In middle school, Leo was already rapping, writing lyrics, and finding other people with his interests."

In 2008, he started Mami Beat Crew, a local hip-hop collective. Fellow Crew member Chip Williams remembers Leo Davincci as a "great musician of music that wasn't fake. He didn't rap about killing people or selling drugs. He talked about real things. He was a great beat maker. And a

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