{"id":2289784,"date":"2026-02-19T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2289784"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:57:14","slug":"lil-poppas-cause-of-death-revealed-lil-poppa-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lil-poppas-cause-of-death-revealed-lil-poppa-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Poppa\u2019s Cause of Death Revealed | Lil Poppa | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lil-poppa\/\" title=\"Lil Poppa\"><strong>Lil Poppa<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s cause of death has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper, born <strong>Janarious Mykel Wheeler<\/strong>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/18\/lil-poppa-dead-rapper-dies-at-25\/\">sadly passed away<\/a> at the age of 25 this week, and there\u2019s an update regarding the cause of his death.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2182862\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Georgia revealed that <strong>Lil Poppa <\/strong>died after being shot in the head, and it has been ruled a suicide, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/19\/rapper-lil-poppa-cause-of-death-released\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink('https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/19\/rapper-lil-poppa-cause-of-death-released\/'); return false;\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news was confirmed one day prior (February 18) by the Fulton County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Georgia, who told <em>TMZ<\/em> that he passed at 11:23 AM ET.<\/p>\n<p>He was signed to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/yo-gotti\/\" title=\"Yo Gotti\"><strong>Yo Gotti<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s Collective Music Group, and released his Billboard-charting debut album<em> Blessed, I Guess <\/em>in 2021. His mixtape<em> Under Investigation 3<\/em> also charted in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>His latest release, \u201cOut of Town Bae,\u201d released just a few days ago, and he was set to perform in March in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with <strong>Lil Poppa<\/strong>\u2018s loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/rip\/\">We have sadly lost many stars in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.justjared.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Poppa\u2018s cause of death has been revealed. The rapper, born Janarious Mykel Wheeler, sadly passed away at the age of 25 this week, and there\u2019s an update regarding the cause of his death. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 The Fulton County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office in Georgia revealed that Lil Poppa died after being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Lil-Poppas-Cause-of-Death-Revealed-Lil-Poppa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289786,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289784\/revisions\/2289786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}