Child rap star blames false reports of her death on hacker who used her Instagram account to spread ‘jarring misinformation’
A controversial child rap star who was reported to be dead has come out to say she is in fact alive.
Lil Tay, the musical alias of Tay Tian, found fame as a nine-year-old with social media posts that showed off what she called her “rockstar life”.
On Wednesday, tributes poured in after Tay’s Instagram account posted a message informing her followers that she had died and describing her passing as an “unbearable loss”.
The statement caused some confusion because it was not attributed to a member of her family and, despite its suggestion that her death was being investigated, no such inquiry had been launched by the local police in Vancouver.