{"id":477091,"date":"2026-02-19T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477091\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:53:08","slug":"lil-poppa-death-rapper-dies-at-25-days-after-releasing-a-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477091\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Poppa death: Rapper dies at 25 days after releasing a new song"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rapper<\/a> Lil Poppa has died at 25.<\/p>\n

The Jacksonville, Florida-based musician died Wednesday in Georgia, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed to The Independent.<\/p>\n

A cause of death was not immediately available.<\/p>\n

Born Janarious Mykel Wheeler, the rapper was signed to Yo Gotti<\/a>\u2019s Collective Music Group. Several of his tracks gained popularity, including \u201cLove & War,\u201d \u201cMind Over Matter\u201d and \u201cHAPPY TEARS.\u201d Lil Poppa\u2019s most recent album, Almost Normal Again, was released in August and featured 16 tracks.<\/p>\n

His newest single, \u201cOut of Town Bae,\u201d was released just days before his death. The rapper was slated to perform in New Orleans next month, TMZ reported.<\/p>\n

\"Rapper<\/p>\n

Rapper Lil Poppa has died at 25 (@lilpoppa\/Instagram)<\/p>\n

Just 12 hours before his death was confirmed, Lil Poppa posted a video to his Instagram Story. The video featured the lyrics to Rod Wave\u2019s song \u201cLetting It Go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what happened \/ I know what happened \/ world never will,\u201d the lyrics played and simultaneously read on screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo in the mean time \/ I’m tryin’ to find a piece of mind \/ Hearts all gotta break sometimes,\u201d the song continued.<\/p>\n

Fans of the rapper have now begun posting tributes in the comments section of his final Instagram grid post from five days before his death. The post was a music video for his latest single, shared with the caption: \u201cOut Of Town Bae Official Video out now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoppa tell me they lying,\u201d one fan posted while another said, \u201cthis can\u2019t be true,\u201d accompanied by multiple broken heart emojis.<\/p>\n

\u201cLil poppa I swear I\u2019m hurt like frrrrrr,\u201d someone else chimed in. Another wrote, \u201cpoppa please say something this can\u2019t be happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tributes continued on X, where heartbroken fans were devastated to learn the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cI listen to lil poppa literally everyday wtf my heart dropped,\u201d one fan wrote while another said, \u201cLil Poppa was super talented. Unfortunate to hear, RIP.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIm so sad lil poppa really died before i could go to one of his concerts,\u201d someone else wrote, as another said, \u201cDamn.. bro was the definition of pain music, long live lil poppa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Lil Poppa has died at 25. The Jacksonville, Florida-based musician died Wednesday in Georgia, the Fulton County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[15526,236,220660,88,220661,220659],"class_list":["post-477091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cause-of-death","tag-celebrities","tag-collective-music-group","tag-entertainment","tag-jordan-wheeler","tag-lil-poppa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477091","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=477091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}