Loved ones of Lexii Alijai started off the new year grieving. It was on January 1 when news circulated that the 21-year-old artist was found dead at a hotel in Minnesota. Exact details surrounding her death are unknown, but according to E!, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner has determined a cause of death.
Lexii reportedly died of a mixture of fentanyl and ethanol. The medical examiner ruled the young rapper's rapper's death to be accidental. Lexii's name is added to a growing list of artists who have died of overdoses in recent years including Lil Peep, Mac Miller, and Juice WRLD. When news of Lexii's death was shared, many of her fellow artists took to social media to display their grief.
Russ, Wale, and Bas were just a few people who spoke out about how stunned they were to hear of the rapper's passing, but Kehlani didn't hold back in sharing just how devastated she was. "Weakest saddest way to start a new year – i’m off this happy new year please please please please be safe out here – love on your people -please," Kehlani wrote in a tweet. "It’s hard to have so much faith in god and that everything happen for a reason cuz it’s sh*t i can’t imagine there ever being a reason for – why bro.” We send our condolences to her loved ones during this difficult time.
Christian Hip Hop Artist TobyMac’s Son Died Of Accidental Drug Overdose
The grieving father recently honored his son with a song.
It was a devastating loss for TobyMac and his family when his son, 21-year-old Truett Foster McKeehan, passed away back in October 2019 at home in Nashville, Tennessee. The shocking news reverberated throughout the music industry as the Christian rapper attempted to honor Truett with an emotional tribute in his song, “21 Years.”
“’21 years’ is a song I wrote about the recent passing of my firstborn son, Truett Foster McKeehan. I loved him with all my heart,” TobyMac shared on Instagram. “Until something in life hits you this hard, you never know how you will handle it. I am thankful that I have been surrounded by love, starting with God’s and extending to community near and far that have walked with us and carried us everyday.”
Truett was an aspiring rapper who wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps. On October 23, police responded to a 911 call at almost 11:00 a.m. that someone was in cardiac arrest. After months of testing, both Radar Online and Extra TV report that Truett’s cause of death has been deemed an accidental overdose from “acute combined drug intoxication.” The publications state that both “fentanyl” and “amphetamine” were found in his system. Check out a clip of TobyMac’s “21 Years” below.
