He died from a heart attack on 13th July 1998, and has been sorely missed from the DNB scene ever since. Suspicions of drug use surrounding his death are unfounded, as he never touched anything other than weed. His heart condition was hereditary, and his brother suffered a less severe attack two months earlier.
Since he left us, every MC in the UK has tried to clone his style, most notably Shabba, Skibba, and "every other" D. In turn, they have been copied by the majority of new younger MCs. I say leave the man's style and his lyrics with him. There was only one Stevie Hyper. A tribute album came out in his memory at the tail end of last year.
It soon became apparent he had a unique style of MCing, and was one of the main characters of the Wu, launching his first solo album "Return to the 36 Chambers - the Dirty Version" in 1995. He followed this up with "Nigga Please" in 1999, and by then had already made his outrageous style of chatting well known the world over.
He collapsed and died in the Wu-Tang's studio in New York last December. My testimony to him, which appeared on the Wu's website, is printed on the left.
There hasn't been another hip-hop MC like him, nor will there ever be again. His gruff style of flow has since been copied of course, not only by hip-hop MCs, but by DNB lyricists also.
