{"id":163597,"date":"2025-12-02T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:50:10","slug":"rapper-and-travis-barker-collaborator-poorstacy-dead-at-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/163597\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper and Travis Barker collaborator POORSTACY dead at 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper POORSTACY has died at the age of 26 after suffering a medical emergency in Florida, according to a report. <\/p>\n<p>POORSTACY, whose legal name is Carlito Milfort, died early Saturday morning, the Boca Raton Police Department<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/12\/01\/poorstacy-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told TMZ. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>His death was confirmed to the outlet by the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner. The cause of his death is not immediately known. <\/p>\n<p>POORSTACY, whose legal name is Carlito Milfort, died early Saturday morning. FilmMagic for Life is Beautiful Music &amp; Art Festival<\/p>\n<p>A hotel worker in Boca Raton\u00a0told the outlet that POORSTACY suffered a medical emergency on Saturday morning and was transported to a local hospital. <\/p>\n<p>He had been staying at the hotel for 10 days and checked in with a woman and a toddler, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>No one else was injured or taken to the hospital, the outlet said. <\/p>\n<p>A hotel worker in Boca Raton\u00a0told the outlet that POORSTACY suffered a medical emergency on Saturday morning and was transported to a local hospital. FilmMagic for Life is Beautiful Music &amp; Art Festival<\/p>\n<p>POORSTACY, a rising rap star from Palm Beach, garnered acclaim and the attention of prominent artists with his signature blend of emo, punk, and hip-hop music.<\/p>\n<p>He was a frequent collaborator of other artists, including Blink-182 drummer and music producer Travis Barker. <\/p>\n<p>One of his closest allies in the industry was Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes, whom he described as a good friend and mentor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOli sends me clothes that he thinks would look good on me,\u201d Stacy recalled of Sykes, his longtime idol, in a 2021<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/music\/violence-ocd-misanthropy-inside-poorstacys-cult-brutal-honesty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> interview with Revolver. <\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u201cHe sends me handwritten letters, and we play\u00a0Call of Duty\u00a0until six in the f\u2014-in\u2019 morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was a frequent collaborator of other artists, including Blink-182 drummer and music producer Travis Barker. <\/p>\n<p>POORSTACY was also featured on the Grammy-nominated \u201cBill &amp; Ted Face the Music\u201d movie soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>He created an impressive two studio albums and two EPs by the age of 26. <\/p>\n<p>POORSTACY\u2019s social media has been flooded with comments mourning the rap prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove u forever, brother,\u201d one user said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re supposed to beat the odds together, brother. I need you here,\u201d another comment read. <\/p>\n<p>The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper POORSTACY has died at the age of 26 after suffering a medical emergency in Florida, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29478,29475,146,1210,85,46,409,19518,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-163597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-celebrity-deaths","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-rappers","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}