South Florida rapper Poorstacy died after an “incident” in Boca Raton early Saturday morning, officials confirmed.
The rapper, whose legal name was Carlito Milfort, was 26.
The incident occurred at 2899 N. Federal Highway, according to Dylan Huberman, a spokesperson for Boca Raton Police, where the hotel Boca By the Sea is located.
Police did not provide a cause of death.
Boca Raton Fire Rescue had arrived at the hotel a little after 6 a.m. and transported the rapper as a trauma alert to Delray Medical Center, according to Lt. Karl Richards, a spokesperson for the fire department.
TMZ reported that Poorstacy had arrived at the hotel with a woman and a toddler and was staying there for the last 10 days before he was hospitalized.
Poorstacy was known for fusing genres and working with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. He dabbled in punk rock, hip-hop, heavy metal and emo. His single “Darkest Night” appeared on the Grammy Award-nominated 2020 “Bill & Ted Face the Music” soundtrack.
“Rest in peace you’ll never be forgotten,” Barker said in an Instagram post Sunday, sharing a clip of a music video with the rapper.
Poorstacy spent the first 10 years of his life between Brooklyn and Queens before his family relocated to South Florida when New York became too expensive, according to the publication Revolver.
He was a troubled teen, growing up coping with his mother’s illness and a lack of money, and often ended up in juvenile detention centers.
“I was just really violent,” Poorstacy told Revolver in 2021. “I would act out irrationally. I would either hurt myself for attention or I would hurt somebody else for attention.”
In South Florida, his career took off. After one of his songs went viral online, he signed with Internet Money, the same rap label that helped launch the careers of Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion.
Information from the New York Daily News was used in this report.
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