{"id":160384,"date":"2026-02-18T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:55:10","slug":"jacksonville-rapper-lil-poppa-dead-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160384\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Rapper Lil Poppa Dead at 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/lil-poppa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Poppa<\/a> has died at age 25. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/erictheyounggawd\/jacksonville-rap-explosive-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville<\/a> rapper, born Janarious Mykel Wheeler, was pronounced deceased at 11:23 a.m. ET on Wednesday, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office. The news was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/18\/rapper-lil-poppa-dead-at-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TMZ<\/a> and confirmed by Complex. The rapper\u2019s cause of death has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>According to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/lil-poppa-tickets\/artist\/2651783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a> page, Poppa was scheduled to perform at the Fillmore in New Orleans on March 21. The rapper released his last single, \u201cOut of Town Bae\u201d on February 13.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Lil Poppa was signed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/yo-gotti\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yo Gotti<\/a>\u2019s Collective Music Group (CMG) off the strength of his mixtape series Under Investigation. The last installment, Under Investigation 3, was released in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Poppa released several albums in the last few years, including Almost Normal Again in 2025. The LP featured singles \u201cBout My Respect\u201d and \u201cMyself Again\u201d and included collaborations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/yungeen-ace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yungeen Ace<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/mozzy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mozzy<\/a> and more. Following the album\u2019s release, Poppa embarked on the twenty-date Almost Normal Again Tour and previously joined his \u201cFalling Fast\u201d collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/rod-wave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Wave<\/a> on the Last Lap Tour.<\/p>\n<p>This story is being updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lil Poppa has died at age 25. The Jacksonville rapper, born Janarious Mykel Wheeler, was pronounced deceased at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-160384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}