Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ Writer, Dead at 66

Writer and producer Barry Michael Cooper has died in Baltimore, Maryland … TMZ has discovered.

Cooper wrote a sequence of iconic Nineteen Nineties motion pictures, together with “New Jack City,” starring Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock … “Above The Rim,” starring Tupac Shakur … and “Sugar Hill.” He additionally produced the 2017-2019 TV sequence “She’s Gotta Have It,” primarily based on the Spike Lee movie of the identical title.

He started his profession as a journalist, writing for Spin Journal and the Village Voice, amongst others.

Cooper had simply posted on Instagram on January 15, celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday.

The Maryland Chief Medical Examiner’s Workplace confirmed Cooper died Tuesday.

He was 66.