Rockville Community Mourns the Death of Rapper, Lil Xelly, D!es at 24
Rockville, Maryland community mourns the death of talented rapper, Lil Xelly who passed away sadly at the age of 24.
Lil Xelly whose real name is Elijah Johnson from Rockville, Maryland reportedly d!ed on Thursday, the 16th of January, 2025.
His music had just broke forth into the mainstream in recent times before his constant and dedicated submissions to SoundCloud.
At the time of writing this news article, there is no official cause of death, however, there have been speculations that he was involved in a shooting in Rockville. According to these speculations, more than one person died in this shooting but law enforcement has concealed the identities of the victims.
Ll Xelly’s career was one you could refer to as “on a low”. He had the talent but didn’t get the attention he wanted. At first, he was dropping his songs on Spinrilla which didn’t do the trick for him.
He went on to further submit his songs on Soundcloud he got some attention and took the submissions to the roof. He posted his songs back-to-back, which other artists could not compete with.
This tactic ensured he became a force to be reckoned with in Rockville, Maryland.
Xelly released his first project in 2017. He titled it More Xelly, the amazing thing about this project was that it was a One hundred and five song mixtape (Crazy, yeah??).
After this, he began releasing at least two albums every month. He was very hungry for success!
Soon, his songs did good numbers on Spotify and Apple Music.
The news of his death has left many in disbelief. Many went on his page on IG to confirm through comments on his last post if his death rumors were true.
User Fooliallen wrote:
you was on my everyday rotation brodie. it can’t be true yo I refuse to believe this shit
Others stormed his page to pay tribute. One user wrote:
god damn it fuck I’m tired of loosing friends.
Another said:
No fuckin way!!!!! XELLY yu my fav artist ive said it many times your music is forever !! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Love you thanks for everything .
