Lil Tay returns with music video after five-year absence, false death report

“It’s been five years and ya’ll still broke,” she said in an Instagram video.

“Your girl is back. Five years and I‘m still the youngest one out. Five years and ya’ll b*****s are still broke. So don’t take it out on me. Why the f**k are ya’ll coming at me for? Ya’ll hating a** b*****s were hating on me when I was nine years old, talking all this s**t when you don’t f**king know me. You had five years to come up and you didn’t, so don’t blame me, b***h.”

The rapper, who is aged somewhere from 14 to 16, was falsely announced to be dead in August in a cryptic post on her Instagram account.

She first rose to internet fame in 2018 at the age of nine.

Lil Tay — born Claire Hope — became known for scripted fights and videos of her throwing around stacks of cash and jumping in and out of exotic sports cars, before she abruptly disappeared from social media.

At the time, she claimed in an interview with The Daily Beast that she and her mother, Angela Tian, had to move back to Vancouver from Los Angeles to be with her father due to a “court order”.

Lil Tay’s return to Instagram coincides with the release of her new song, ‘Sucker 4 Green’, and music video which sees her picking up right where she left off — dancing around in a mansion, showing off sports cars and flaunting wads of cash.

Taking to Instagram Live, Lil Tay also showed off her impressive guitar and piano skills, to the astonishment of fans.

Collectively her videos have gone massively viral, racking up millions of views in a few hours.

“It’s been five years and Lil Tay still flexing on us LMFAOOO,” one user on X wrote.

In August this year, a statement was posted to her Instagram — which had been dormant since 2018 — announcing the death of Lil Tay and her brother Jason Tian, 22, sparking a media firestorm.

She later told TMZ via a statement from her family that her Instagram account had been “compromised” and “used to spread jarring misinformation and rumours regarding me”.

Lil Tay’s return was foreshadowed last week by a post to her Instagram Story.

In her Instagram Live video on Saturday, Lil Tay again slammed “random frauds” who had claimed to be her manager.

She also addressed “death hoax”.

Last week, the social media star was spotted alive and well for the first time in five years at a Los Angeles airport.

She wore a black hoodie, sunglasses and a face mask while security guards ushered her, along with her brother and mother, as they were bombarded by curious photographers.

Lil Tay had earlier posted a cryptic photo on her Instagram story showing someone with long black fingernails clutching a US passport.

— with NY Post