{"id":477830,"date":"2026-02-19T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:34:09","slug":"popular-rapper-lil-poppa-found-dead-in-fulton-county-medical-examiner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477830\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular rapper Lil Poppa found dead in Fulton County, medical examiner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25-year-old rapper was pronounced dead just after 11 a.m. in Fulton County on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>FULTON COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 Popular rapper Lil Poppa was found dead in Fulton County on Wednesday, the medical examiner&#8217;s office confirmed with 11Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Poppa, whose real name is Janarious Mykel Wheeler, was pronounced dead just after 11 a.m. in Fulton County. Wheeler was 25 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office said his manner and cause of death are still pending investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Poppa was based out of Jacksonville, Florida, and was signed to Yo Gotti&#8217;s Collective Music Group (CMG). He had released several hit songs over the past few years, including &#8220;Love &amp; War,&#8221; &#8220;Mind Over Matter,&#8221; and &#8220;HAPPY TEARS,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/18\/rapper-lil-poppa-dead-at-25\/#continued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled to perform in New Orleans in March for his next performance.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c246e511-903a-45e4-ac8c-0ac4497ec4bf_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c246e511-903a-45e4-ac8c-0ac4497ec4bf_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old rapper was pronounced dead just after 11 a.m. in Fulton County on Wednesday. FULTON COUNTY, Ga.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-477830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477830","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=477830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}