(CNN) Chris Kelly one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross died Wednesday at an Atlanta hospital after he was found unresponsive at his home. He was 34.
How Kelly died isn't known and the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said an autopsy is planned for Thursday.
Kelly together with Chris Smith shot to stardom in 1992 with Jump which spent eight weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100.
The duo opened for Michael Jackson that year on his Dangerous World Tour.
And their penchant for wearing their clothes backward were at least for a time widely emulated.
I'm wearing my clothes to work backwards tomorrow Michael Skolnik editor in chief of the hip hop site Global Grind said when he learned of the death.
Leslie Tookes a CNN project coordinator lived next door to Kelly. Like others she too was saddened by his untimely death.
We often heard him playing classical music and the piano Tookes said. He was a low key type of person who was very talented and courteous friendly and wonderful to our 5 year old twins.
Indeed gone too soon.
Discovered at a mall
Kelly and Smith were 13 year olds when they were discovered in 1991 at an Atlanta mall by producer Jermaine Dupri.
Going by the stage name Mac Daddy (with Smith known as Daddy Mac) the pair followed up their smash Jump with the single Warm It Up.
Together the songs pushed their debut album Totally Krossed Out to multiplatinum status.
Next came 1993's Da Bomb.
But the album failed to find the following of the duo's debut in large part because the boys had hit puberty and they were marketed with a tougher image.
Their career never again reached the heights of their debut but they continued to make music.
In 1996 the duo released the album Young Rich and Dangerous.
The pair reunited for one night in February for a 20th anniversary party for Dupri's So So Def label.
Rapper Da Brat who also performed that night wrote about Kelly's death REST IN PEACE TO MY LIL BRO CHRIS KELLY OF KRIS KROSS. Dam wasn't we JUST at rehearsal and doin a So So Def20 show
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CNN's Ed Payne Chelsea Carter and Tresha Lindo contributed to this report.
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