“Our associates were deeply touched by his sincerity and effort to extend such gratitude,” the cancer center’s statement said. The gritty southern city where Young Dolph grew up helped him forge the material that fueled his influential career in the hip-hop world - and was ultimately where his life was taken from him. Return trips like this one had become common in his life, which ended Wednesday when he was shot multiple times inside Makeda’s Cookies, a popular bakery owned by a Black family and known for tasty butter cookies and banana pudding.

He stopped by West Cancer Center in the Memphis suburb of Germantown on Monday, spending time with clinical staff and thanking them for compassionate care given to a relative, the center said in a statement.

The 36-year-old who grew up on the Memphis streets was in town to hand out turkeys at a church and other locations ahead of Thanksgiving. Two days before he was gunned down while buying cookies at his favorite bakery in Memphis, Tennessee, rapper Young Dolph visited a cancer center where a relative had received treatment.

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