Rapper Young Bleed Dead at 51 After Brain Aneurysm, Son Confirms

Young Bleed shown in a promotional image circa 2024.Young Bleed’s son, Ty’Gee Ramon, confirmed his father’s death in a video posted Monday on Instagram, saying the Baton Rouge rapper “gained his wings” on Saturday following complications from a brain aneurysm.

Baton Rouge rapper Young Bleed, whose 1998 anthem “How Ya Do Dat” became a Southern rap classic and helped define the bridge between No Limit’s street realism and Cash Money’s mainstream rise, has died at 51 following complications from a brain aneurysm.

His eldest son, Ty’Gee Ramon, confirmed the news Monday in an emotional Instagram video, saying his father “gained his wings” on Saturday. “It’s unreal,” Ramon said. “He never dealt with real health issues, but he did have high blood pressure and took medicine. It was a natural thing.”

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The Louisiana native — born Glenn Clifton Jr. — suffered a brain aneurysm on Oct. 25, days after performing at the Cash Money–No Limit Verzuz event in Las Vegas and appearing at ComplexCon. He had been hospitalized in critical condition since then.

The sudden loss comes less than two weeks after his sister, Tedra Johnson-Spears, publicly pleaded for fans to stop spreading false death reports while Young Bleed remained in intensive care. “He is still currently in ICU,” she wrote at the time, asking for privacy and respect for the family.

In the days before his hospitalization, Bleed was enjoying a late-career renaissance, celebrating both his roots and his influence as a Baton Rouge trailblazer. Known for his poetic storytelling and unhurried drawl, he brought a philosopher’s calm to the chaos of late-’90s Louisiana rap — a sound that turned regional slang and hustler ethos into national conversation.

His debut album, “My Balls and My Word,” released through No Limit and Priority Records, debuted in Billboard’s Top 10 in 1998. The album’s breakout single, “How Ya Do Dat,” featuring C-Loc and Master P, became a Gulf Coast rallying cry that cemented Bleed’s legacy. The project went gold, earning Young Bleed a place among the first Baton Rouge rappers to reach a mainstream national audience.