Damn, that's crazy bro. From what I remember from reading a few years back, he was shot in a car in front of his grandma's house. He went out to Upstate and stayed in a house up there to heal up and let the heat die down in the city, and started converting part of the house into a recording studio. I think it was... Power of the Dollar? - that he recorded up there. PoTD is one of my favorite albums of all time, but it never experienced a big proper release because powerful people in the NYC underworld and record biz weren't cool with how some of his lyrics came too close to naming real thugs and drug dealers and stuff. He was able to get it released as sort of a hand-distributed mixtape, but that shit should have made him famous. Dre and Em stepped in a couple years later and the rest is history.

Side Note: You can't find Power of the Dollar for sale anywhere, and even youtube videos can be hard to find as they're sometimes purged by YouTuibe or maybe others.

Side Note 2: I didn't know the reason was a girl that's wild. You know any more than that?