{"id":598596,"date":"2026-04-22T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:42:10","slug":"bodypartz-rapper-luci4-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598596\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;BodyPartz&#8217; Rapper Luci4 Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260227_b7cf7baa08864ea8a26a12b9420418d2\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:67108e52-f417-42dc-b676-5b4590de2b53\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b7cf7baa08864ea8a26a12b9420418d2_md.png\" alt=\"Luci4. Courtesy of Dear family.\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up-and-coming rapper Luci4\u00a0&#8212; best known for his viral hit &#8220;BodyPartz&#8221; &#8212; died earlier this year &#8230; and now we know the cause.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner &#8230; the musician &#8212; born James Dear &#8212; died of an accidental fentanyl\u00a0overdose.<\/p>\n<p>We broke the news &#8230; the 23-year-old was <a href=\"https:\/\/tmz.com\/2026\/02\/23\/luci4-dead\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found dead<\/a> on February 22, at a friend\u2019s house in L.A.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260421_279eb6a15c534a97b21d9a176c2960d7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:67108e52-f417-42dc-b676-5b4590de2b53\" 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\/04\/279eb6a15c534a97b21d9a176c2960d7_md.jpg\" alt=\"luci4-main-ig-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department told us at the time &#8230; they responded to a medical call at the house at 11:40 AM &#8230; but when they arrived, the person was already deceased, so police were notified.<\/p>\n<p>Luci4 made waves online as a pioneer of the internet microgenre Sigilkore &#8230; blowing up on TikTok in 2021 and eventually landing a deal with Atlantic Records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BodyPartz&#8221; exploded across social media and went gold, certified by the Recording Industry Association of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up-and-coming rapper Luci4\u00a0&#8212; best known for his viral hit &#8220;BodyPartz&#8221; &#8212; died earlier this year &#8230; and now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4,88,483,216,3,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-598596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hip-hop","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tmz-hip-hop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598596","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=598596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}