MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A pop-up museum in honor of Young Dolph is coming to Memphis this weekend.
Young Dolph, whose real name is Adolph Thorton Jr., is a famous Memphis rapper who was killed in a shooting back in 2021 at Makeda’s Homemade Cookies on Airways Boulevard.
FILE – Young Dolph performs at The Parking Lot Concert in Atlanta on Aug. 23, 2020. A man charged with soliciting the killing of Young Dolph pleaded not guilty Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, one year after the rapper and producer was shot to death while buying cookies at a bakery in his hometown of Memphis, Tenn. (Photo by Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP, File)
ATLANTA, GA – JULY 22: Rapper Young Dolph performs on stage at Gucci and Friends Homecoming Concert at Fox Theatre on July 22, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Atlantic Records)
LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 24: Young Dolph at day 2 of the Radio Broadcast Center, sponsored by Sprite, during the 2017 BET Awards at Microsoft Square on June 24, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images for BET)
American Rapper Young Dolph performs during the Astroworld Festival at NRG Stadium on November 9, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – OCTOBER 05: Young Dolph
attends the BET Hip Hop Awards 2019 at Cobb Energy Center on October 05, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 24: Young Dolph performs onstage at night three of the STAPLES Center Concert, sponsored by Sprite, during the 2017 BET Experience at Staples Center on June 24, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for BET)
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The pop-up museum, Dolphland, will display historic moments in Young Dolph’s career while allowing attendees to be “immersed in a sensory overload of everything Dolph.”
Attendees can purchase tickets to view the museum every weekend for the month of May at Agricenter International in Cordova on Walnut Grove Road.
