{"id":161360,"date":"2026-02-19T16:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161360\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:33:07","slug":"jacksonville-rapper-lil-poppa-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161360\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville rapper Lil Poppa has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            Former FADER columnist Brandon Callender once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2022\/11\/10\/the-rap-report-lil-poppas-pointillism-yungmorpheus-writes-in-flames-and-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">compared Poppa to a pointillist painter<\/a> meticulously building up songs detail by detail, saying in part that the rapper\u2019s \u201cgravity\u201d helped to \u201cdeepen the emotion in his songs.\u201d That depth and detail are at the forefront of projects like \u2018Blessed, I Guess,\u2019 \u2018Heavy is the Head,\u2019 and last year\u2019s \u2018Almost Normal Again,\u2019 which featured frequent collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/artist\/seddy-hendrinx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seddy Hendrinx<\/a> and LA rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/artist\/mozzy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mozzy<\/a>. I&#8217;m personally partial to Poppa&#8217;s excellent guest verse on &#8220;<a target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sWHnWLUKEDQ?si=6hAEbV71-YRd44Vi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X-Hausted<\/a>,&#8221; the outro to Rylo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2023\/10\/05\/babyxsosa-kura-rylo-rodriguez-osamason-round-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2023 album Been One<\/a>, where the Florida rapper&#8217;s falsetto offers a smooth counterpoint to his host&#8217;s gravelly baritone.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former FADER columnist Brandon Callender once compared Poppa to a pointillist painter meticulously building up songs detail by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-161360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161360","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=161360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}