That makes zero sense. Am I the only one who thinks it's corny when people say this shit?
If somebody doesn't want people gossiping about them then they wouldn't write their name all over the place to get rep and gain some type of celebrity for themselves. If his friends and fans didn't want to gossip about him, then they wouldn't post pics of his graffiti and type RIP on an Internet forum.
When you create a level of celebrity about yourself, people wanna know how you died.
But then again you just made it obvious how dude died with your response to people asking. Probably the same way most graff heads who die young go out.
If so, then what's there to be ashamed about? We all know people who go out like that.