{"id":477431,"date":"2026-02-19T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:52:08","slug":"rapper-lil-poppa-dead-at-25-distraught-fans-respond-with-heartfelt-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477431\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Lil Poppa dead at 25, distraught fans respond with heartfelt tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville, Fla., rapper Lil Poppa died Wednesday<\/a> at age 25, just days after releasing a new track.<\/p>\n

The Fulton County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Georgia\u00a0told TMZ <\/a>that the 25-year-old artist was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 11:23 a.m. ET. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n

A rep for Lil Poppa did not immediately return Page Six\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n

Per the outlet, Lil Poppa \u2014 whose given name is Janarious Mykel Wheeler \u2014 was scheduled to perform in New Orleans in March.<\/p>\n

Rapper Lil Poppa, seen here onstage in Atlanta in December 2024, has died, according to TMZ. WireImage<\/p>\n

The Fulton County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Georgia told the outlet he died on Wednesday. He\u2019s seen here in Houston on October 31, 2024. Getty Images<\/p>\n

He released his newest track, \u201cOut Of Town Bae,\u201d on Friday, sharing a music video on his Instagram account the same day. Lil Poppa is best known for his single \u201cLove & War.\u201d <\/p>\n

The artist was signed with Yo Gotti\u2019s Collective Music Group and boasted a discography of more than 10\u00a0full-length albums and projects. His most recent, \u201cAlmost Normal Again,\u201d dropped in August 2025.<\/p>\n

As the news spread across social media, fans took to X and Instagram to express their disbelief. <\/p>\n

He had just released a track on Friday called \u201cOut of Town Bae.\u201d He\u2019s seen here in November 2024 in Detroit. WireImage<\/p>\n

Fans on social media expressed their grief on Wednesday. Lil Poppa is seen here in Atlanta in November 2023. WireImage<\/p>\n

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\u201cAint no way lil Poppa gone,\u201d one person wrote,<\/a> while another added, \u201cMannn Lil Poppa I Can\u2019t Believe This.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cLil Poppa got a song for every feeling you could feel,\u201d a third person wrote, with a fourth chiming in, \u201cLil poppa done hurt the whole city with this one.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cRIP Lil Poppa one of the greatest talents of our generation,\u201d yet another remarked. \u201cCrazy underrated this album here and this song in particular are some of the best of the last few years. So talented and so young this s\u2013t rlly got me f\u2013ked up.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people tell me I got them through their toughest times,\u201d he said in a 2021 interview with Audiomack. <\/p>\n

He told the outlet he realized he had \u201cthe power to change someone\u2019s outlook.\u201d WireImage<\/p>\n

In a 2021 interview with Audiomack<\/a>, the rapper reflected on how his career had affected fans. <\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people tell me I got them through their toughest times,\u201d he shared at the time. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say I got them through certain situations, or I stopped them from doing this or doing that. That means a lot. That makes me realize I got the power to change someone\u2019s outlook on a certain situation. So I need to be mature enough to handle my own situations in a mature way.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, Fla., rapper Lil Poppa died Wednesday at age 25, just days after releasing a new track. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7569,91,88,216,14735],"class_list":["post-477431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rappers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477431","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=477431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}