Zeethewizard, an up-and-coming Dallas rapper, has died – days after he was shot outside a club in the Stemmons Corridor, police officials said Monday.
Zecqurie Cannon Grant Fields, 25, was critically injured shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday when gunfire erupted at Pink House Dallas, an after-hours club near Empire Central and North Stemmons Freeway.
He died Monday, according to Dallas police. Three others were wounded.
Fields, who was from Dallas, most recently lived in west Oak Cliff, according to public records. He began his music career after an injury dashed his sports ambitions.
“The first six, seven months I wasn’t feeling it,” Fields told a YouTube blog in 2024. “What I’m putting down, people weren’t picking up.”
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He credited his inner circle with motivating him to continue: “Ain’t nobody finna steer me in the wrong direction, not the people I got around me.”
Fields was part of New Dallas, a loose collective of friends who advocate for peace and unity in the local rap scene, which emerged around 2023.
In August, he released a song that went on to become his most-streamed track with over 87,000 listens on Spotify. After the song’s music video reached 100,000 views, Fields wrote of the milestone in an August post to Instagram: “What a blessing to be in this position … ain’t no looking back now, let’s keep going.”
The video has since amassed close to 640,000 views.
Davante Peters, who recently made music with Fields, told The Dallas Morning News that both in and outside of music, Fields was a “stand-up guy” who had “a bright future ahead of him.”
“Everybody said positive things about him,” Peters said, adding, “He was definitely on his way to blow up in the city, go on to do some great things.”
“But unfortunately, bullets don’t have names on them.”
Peters learned Fields had been wounded early Thursday morning from friends who witnessed the shooting.
Peters said he’ll remember Fields as a “rare personality” in the music industry: supportive, humble and approachable, all “despite his success.”
“We did a song, and I was just impressed by him,” Peters said. “He could have just took his money and left, but he stayed for hours and hours at the video shoot. He rapped my part word-for-word. And it just let me know he was a different kind of guy.
“He was passionate about his career, and people who supported his career.”