{"id":476763,"date":"2026-02-19T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476763\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:02:08","slug":"rapper-lil-poppa-dead-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476763\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Lil Poppa Dead at 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Poppa &#8212; a popular rapper based out of Jacksonville, Florida &#8212; has died &#8230; TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office in Georgia tells TMZ &#8230; the rapper &#8212; real name Janarious Mykel Wheeler &#8212; was pronounced dead today at 11:23 AM ET.<\/p>\n<p>His cause of death was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260218_06156e9083a3427b9f0a950e306b5ad7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:74658a13-a751-400a-a582-7b6d908d847e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/06156e9083a3427b9f0a950e306b5ad7_md.jpg\" alt=\"lil-poppa-sub-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lil Poppa was signed to Yo Gotti\u2019s Collective Music Group (CMG) and has released several hit tracks over the last few years, including &#8220;Love &amp; War,&#8221; &#8220;Mind Over Matter,&#8221; and &#8220;HAPPY TEARS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Poppa&#8217;s 16-song album &#8220;Almost Normal Again&#8221; came out in August &#8230; and, he released a new single titled &#8220;Out of Town Bae&#8221; this past Friday. Lil Poppa was scheduled to perform next month in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Poppa was 25.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lil Poppa &#8212; a popular rapper based out of Jacksonville, Florida &#8212; has died &#8230; TMZ has learned.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4,88,483,216,3,484],"class_list":["post-476763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-breaking-news","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}