Last month, 20-year-old singer D4vd made headlines after the decaying and dismembered body of 15-year-old Celeste Rivas was found in the trunk of his car. While that undoubtedly is not a positive way to make national news, one prominent rapper seems to be a little bit jealous of all the press that D4vd has received.
As authorities continue to investigate the grim finding, D4vd has not been named a suspect, and the case has not even been officially declared a homicide. However, he has still been the subject of countless national headlines for the past few weeks – and it sounds like rapper Meek Mill wishes he were receiving that sort of publicity.
What We Know About the Investigation
- A decomposing body was found inside a Tesla belonging to musician D4vd at an impound lot in Hollywood on Sept. 8.
- The car was brought to the impound lot after “someone reported it abandoned” in Hollywood Hills, and police were called after workers “reported a strong odor” coming from the Tesla.
- The Tesla was never reported as stolen.
- The body was discovered inside a bag in the Tesla’s front trunk. The remains were not intact and had badly decomposed.
- The remains were so decomposed that it took authorities more than a week to identify the body.
- The remains were eventually identified as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas.
- D4vd has a matching tattoo with Rivas, and her mother said she has been missing for over a year and that her daughter’s boyfriend was named David.
- D4vd initially decided to continue his world tour while cooperating with the investigation, but he cancelled the remainder of his tour on Wednesday.
- An unreleased love song written by D4vd references someone by the name of “Celeste” in the unfinished title and twice in the lyrics.
- Police raided a home connected to D4vd as they continue the investigation.
- D4vd moves out of the home that the police raided.
- Authorities have not officially deemed the death a homicide since medical examiners have been unable to determine an official cause of death, and D4vd is not considered a suspect at this point.
D4vd Has Received a lot of Attention
This was not exactly a positive way to make headlines, and it has already cost him some sponsorships and support from his record label. However, the whole situation has also led to an undeniable surge in popularity on streaming platforms.
Amid the investigation, D4vd’s music is now more popular than it has been in years with his streams more than doubling the week after the body was found in the trunk of his car.
“Following the reports, D4vd’s overall streams have experienced significant gains — including the viral hit that helped deliver him to the mainstream. From Sept. 18-22, D4vd’s catalog earned 30.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams, more than double the total from the previous five-day tracking period (13.8 million streams from Sept. 12-16), according to preliminary data provided by Luminate,” Billboard reported last month.
D4vd’s hit song “Romantic Homicide” saw an especially large surge in streams, perhaps given its title.
Meek Mill is Jealous of the Attention
While the attention may not have come for a good reason, it sounds like rapper Meek Mill is jealous of the amount of publicity D4vd has received over the past several weeks. In fact, he openly admits that he wish he had the same attention for his next album rollout.
In a since-deleted post to his Instagram story, Meek Mill shared a story from TMZ about the D4vd investigation where he expressed his desire to receive the same sort of publicity for his upcoming album.
“I need his promo for my album rollout,” wrote Mill on his now-deleted Instagram Story, via Complex. “Who do I call?”
It’s not clear whether or not Meek Mill knew the specifics of D4vd’s situation, but it’s certainly a surprising thing to hearfrom the rapper amid the investigation.
