Rapper Lil Tay has died, her family announced through an Instagram post shared on Aug. 9. The cause of her death has not yet been made public, but the social media star’s family wrote that the “outcome was unexpected and has left us all in shock.” The Instagram post also revealed that her brother has died. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lil Tay (@liltay) [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The family of Lil Tay, whose real name was Claire Hope, has asked for privacy as the “circumstances surrounding Claire and her brother’s passing are still under investigation.” Hope, who was originally from Atlanta, Ga., and later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, first entered the public eye in 2018, when videos of her at age 9 went viral.