Roy Rochlin/FilmMagicCraig ‘muMs’ Grant, who portrayed Arnold “Poet” Jackson on the critically-acclaimed HBO drama-series Oz, has died at the age of 52, Deadline has learned.
Although Deadline reports that Grant died of natural causes, other outlets are reporting that an official cause of death has not been determined.
Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Grant, who went by muMs da Schemer during his early slam-poetry days, began his career as part of the critically acclaimed Nuyorican Poetry Slam team. From there he was featured in the 1998 documentary Slam Nation: The Sport of Spoken Word and on early