Cardi B Remembers Late Social Media Star Rolling Ray: ‘You Will Truly Be Missed’

On Thursday (Sept.4), TMZ reported that Juan Raymond Harper, also known to the online masses as “Rolling Ray,” had died unexpectedly at only 28 years old. Not long after the news broke, fans and celebrities, like Cardi B, hopped online to honor his memory. “Rolling Ray was a menace lmaoo… but he changed soo much and became so positive,” she wrote in an X post. “I know that soul made it to heaven…You will truly be missed BIG PURRRR!!!”

Along with being the face behind dozens of popular memes, Rolling Ray also starred in several shows on the Zeus network, like Bobby I Love You, Purrr. In addition to Ray’s mother confirming the news to the outlet, the Zeus network also confirmed the passing with an Instagram post, writing: “Gone way too soon. #RestInPeace to the BIG hearted, most Raw, & #Zeus Star #RaymondHarper aka @iamrollingray.”

In other news, Cardi B has been in full rollout mode since announcing the release date of her forthcoming album, Am I The Drama? Unlike with Invasion of Privacy, the rapper is stepping into a new era; however, it’s much darker than expected. Aside from the album’s eerie cover, the usage of crows, which are often a symbol of death, has even been reflected in her recent fashion choices.

Last month, at Schiaparelli’s Paris Couture Week, she made quite the entrance, rocking a live crow as an outfit accessory. Cardi B recently sat down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music and noted the album’s dark “energy” stems from “something dying inside” her. “I really like to do my things very colorful. I’m a very colorful person. But it’s just like this past year, I feel like something kind of was dying in me.”

“My humbleness, me trying so much to be unproblematic, me trying to avoid drama, avoid the disses, avoid the b*tches, avoid the talks, it’s like that sh*t is dying, that’s dying out in me,” she added.