The questions about Lil Poppa’s personal life have surged alongside the grief. Who did he have kids with? How many children did he leave behind? Who is the mother? The answers are simpler than the online speculation suggests. One child. One confirmed relationship that produced that child. One mother who is now raising a three-year-old alone after losing his father at 25.
Lil Poppa kept his personal life private by design. He was a man who put everything into his music and kept his family out of the headlines as much as possible. That restraint — unusual in an era where artists monetize every personal moment — is part of why the questions are flooding in now. The public knew his pain. They knew his streets. They knew his grief. They did not know his living room. Now they are asking.
Here is everything that is publicly confirmed and verified.
Does Lil Poppa Have Kids?
Lil Poppa has one confirmed child. His name is PJ. He was born in June 2022 in Florida. He is three years old. His father was 21 when he was born and 25 when he died.
Multiple biographical sources and direct social media documentation confirm PJ as Lil Poppa’s only child. Rumors and unverified social media chatter about multiple children or other relationships have circulated online since the death reports began. None of those additional claims are verified. The only confirmed child of Janarious Mykel Wheeler is PJ — born June 2022, mother Toie Roberts.
Lil Poppa referenced fatherhood in his music and in public statements. It was one of the few personal details he made visible. He described his son as a primary motivation — one of the central reasons he kept working, kept releasing, kept pushing forward. In the context of his catalog, which documented survival and grief and the pressure of carrying the people who depended on him, fatherhood was not a footnote. It was a driving force.
Who Is PJ’s Mother?
Toie Roberts is 23 years old. She was born March 17, 2002. She is the eldest daughter of William Leonard Roberts II — known globally as Rick Ross, rapper and founder of Maybach Music Group. Her mother is Lastonia Leviston.
Toie is not famous because of Lil Poppa. She had already built her own public identity before their relationship surfaced. She is the founder and CEO of Ashanti Beauty, an active e-commerce skincare and beauty brand. She also runs Four Two Clothing, her fashion line. She has over 270,000 Instagram followers built on lifestyle content, entrepreneurship, and her own platform — not on celebrity family association.
She is also, as of February 18, 2026, a single mother raising a three-year-old whose father died at 25. That is the weight sitting behind every business post and every brand update she will make going forward.
Rick Ross as Grandfather
Rick Ross attended the baby shower for PJ in May 2022. The event was documented publicly. When PJ was born in June 2022, Rick Ross celebrated with a social media post that became one of the most-shared moments of his personal life in years.
He poured Luc Belaire champagne on a balcony and announced himself as a grandfather. He called himself Gucci Grampa. For a man who has spent two decades projecting untouchable boss energy in every public context, the grandfather announcement was disarmingly human. Even Rick Ross could not play it cool for that. The post spread across every hip-hop platform immediately.
PJ is Rick Ross’s only confirmed grandchild. That fact makes the loss of Lil Poppa personal for one of hip-hop’s most powerful figures in a way that no business relationship or industry connection could replicate. His daughter’s child has lost his father. That is the reality inside the Rozay household right now, alongside everything else.
Lil Poppa and Toie Roberts: The Full Relationship Timeline
The relationship between Lil Poppa and Toie Roberts went through several visible public phases. It was never officially announced. It played out the way most things in Lil Poppa’s personal life did — in fragments, in music, in social media moments that fans pieced together.
The first concrete confirmation came through a pregnancy photoshoot in early 2022. Lil Poppa appeared in maternity photos alongside Toie. A Jacksonville rapper signed to CMG and the eldest daughter of Rick Ross — together, expecting a child — made immediate headlines across hip-hop blogs and celebrity news sites.
PJ was born in June 2022. By 2023, the relationship had fractured publicly. Lil Poppa addressed the breakdown in music — a diss track with lyrics referencing Toie and the deterioration of what they had built together. Toie responded publicly on social media. She addressed cheating allegations. She did not stay silent, and she did not let the drama define her platform.
By 2025 and into early 2026, neither had confirmed a current relationship status. Social media activity suggested ongoing co-parenting and contact. No couple status had been declared. The one constant through every phase — together, fractured, private — was PJ. The child was always the anchor.
What PJ Inherits
PJ Wheeler will grow up in Jacksonville, Florida — the same city his father turned into music for seven years. He will grow up knowing his grandfather is Rick Ross. He will grow up with access to a catalog of 247 million Spotify streams that documents who his father was, what he feared, what he survived, and what he was building toward.
He will also grow up without his father physically present. Lil Poppa died on February 18, 2026. PJ was three years old. His father had a New Orleans show booked for March 21. A spring album was in production. Daily streams were climbing toward 185,000 per day. The forward motion was real and documented. It stopped when PJ was still too young to understand what was happening.
Toie Roberts is 23. She is raising a three-year-old. She is running two businesses. She lost the father of her child at 25 — a man she had a public relationship with, a public falling-out with, and a continued co-parenting bond with. The grief is complicated. It is also real.
Jacksonville rapper Trap Beckham said it for the city: “The city is truly not the same.” That statement lands differently when you account for the three-year-old who lives there. The city that Lil Poppa rapped about for seven years is also the city where his son will grow up knowing his father only through music.
That is the family Lil Poppa leaves behind. One son. One mother. One grandfather who poured champagne on a balcony in Paris when PJ was born. And a catalog honest enough to raise a child on.
