The web character referred to as “foul-mouthed” and “braggadocious” rapper Lil Tay, per The Guardian, is definitely “secure and alive,” she stated in an announcement to TMZ, someday after a submit claiming each she and her brother had died cropped up on her Instagram. “I wish to make it clear that my brother and I are secure and alive, however I am utterly heartbroken, and struggling to even discover the best phrases to say,” the rapper stated in her alleged assertion. “It has been a really traumatizing 24 hours.” She goes on to clarify that her Instagram was “compromised by a third social gathering and used to unfold jarring misinformation and rumors relating to me, to the purpose that even my identify was unsuitable. My authorized identify is Tay Tian, not ‘Claire Hope.'” The unique submit has now been deleted. Now 15, Lil Tay was solely 9 when she first went viral posting “rowdy movies of herself boasting about being wealthy and proudly owning costly automobiles,” Selection defined. However there have been issues over her security and household life in recent times — in 2018, her Instagram was “cleaned, and the phrases ‘assist me’ have been posted to her story.”