Lil Tay is speaking out in an interview for the first time since her viral death hoax! In case you need a refresher, the teen was formerly a child rapper who disappeared from the spotlight, only to make headlines earlier this year when it was posted on her Instagram account that she and her brother Jason Tian had died.
Quickly, followers noticed how odd the entire situation was and began to speculate whether she was actually dead or not — and they got their answers not long after when Tay AKA Claire Hope came forward to claim her account was hacked.
In her Stories at the time, she claimed her “abusive” father Christopher Hope was the one who was behind the whole ordeal, and now she’s opening up to Rolling Stone to explain more of the situation.
In the interview, which dropped on Monday, the teen revealed she was pursuing a career as a pop star — and she was already prepping to release her song Sucker 4 Green when the death hoax came “out of nowhere”: The singer went on to say after she “gained her freedom” from her allegedly abusive father, she wanted to put songs out celebrating that freedom — and apparently he didn’t like that.
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