Rapper & Influencer Brax Dead At 21

Rapper and social media influencer Brax has died. She was 21.

Brax’s mother, Letricia Loftin Russell, confirmed the devastating news on Thursday (November 5). A cause of death for the musician, whose real name was Braxton Baker, has not yet been specified.

"Our angel, Braxton Blue.B Baker has ascended," Russell captioned a two-minute video montage of her beloved daughter on Instagram. "At the time of her ascendance she laid in sacred form. There were no scratches there were no bruises, her internal and external being was completely pure. It was a spiritual release. God retrieved the angel He loaned us."

Russell continued, "Braxton was in spiritual retreat, carefully crafting and curating her art. She has since dedicated her art to humanity and healing, composing two albums and three novels. Most recently she was in the process of forming her brand merging her loves for fashion, and the work of Black queer revolutionary womxn."

“She knew that her brilliance and art would be shared with the world in God’s timing,” Brax’s mother wrote, concluding, “This is just the beginning, our whole beings are dedicated to sharing her sacred art with the world.”

Born in Richmond, Virginia, Brax released her debut music project, the 2017 mixtape Verse(Atility), which featured jams like “Lil’ b—ch,” “Dropped” and “Regina George.”

Brax moonlighted as a writer and influencer outside of music, as she had also run the lifestyle blog Alexis the G since 2016. She boasted more than 103,000 followers on Instagram, where she often shared fashion snapshots with her fanbase. Her final Instagram post was shared in March 2019.

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