{"id":751192,"date":"2026-06-21T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751192\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:24:15","slug":"drake-pays-tribute-to-tay-keith-as-new-details-emerge-about-rap-producers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751192\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Pays Tribute to Tay Keith as New Details Emerge About Rap Producer&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260620_fb5398867c6c4e278d1dbd31f13b8a73\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:00894d1b-903e-41d1-915b-a65cf8205097\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fb5398867c6c4e278d1dbd31f13b8a73_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-drake-tay-keith-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/drake\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a> is paying homage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tay-keith\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tay Keith<\/a> following Tay&#8217;s untimely death this week in Tennessee, thanking him for his major contributions to the music world.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Drake posted a tribute to Instagram, celebrating Tay&#8217;s life with a photo of the Grammy-nominated hip hop producer marked by the phrases, &#8220;In Loving Memory&#8221; and &#8220;Rest In Peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>Champagne Papi also wrote that he has &#8220;endless and eternal gratitude&#8221; for Tay&#8217;s spirit and contributions to their love of music, and Tay will be &#8220;deeply missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to police &#8230; Tay was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/18\/tay-keith-dead\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found dead<\/a> in a Nashville apartment on Thursday after cops went to check on him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TMZ has now learned from law enforcement &#8230; a friend requested the police welfare check after growing concerned when Tay couldn&#8217;t be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Our sources say building staff helped officers gain entry to Tay&#8217;s apartment before they discovered his body.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine Tay&#8217;s cause and manner of death.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tay was 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake is paying homage to Tay Keith following Tay&#8217;s untimely death this week in Tennessee, thanking him for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[879,49,48,75,12891,341,44,12892],"class_list":["post-751192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}