Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan has died | how did rich homie quan die
We are continuing to follow more breaking news from around the country, and this story is coming out of Atlanta, Georgia. I want to pull up a tweet for you right now. We do know it has now been confirmed that Rich Homie Kwan, the rapper, has passed away at the age of 34. Now, this is according to several family members and has now been confirmed by Fulton county as well. We do want to keep up with this story because we know that Rich Homie Kwan, as this tweet said, you provided so many folks with hits during the 2010s, you knew you were in for something special. As soon as you heard his voice and his hook, our hearts go out to his friends and family. Rest in power, Quan. And that was a statement that was released earlier today from BET. Also earlier today, I was able to speak to a journalist there in the Atlanta area who knew Rich Homie Kwan and extensively covered him. Let’s listen in to those comments here on live now. Ar Shaw, journalist and author of trap history, the Atlanta Culture and the impact of trap music.
Ar, thank you so much for being with us here this afternoon. Quite a shocking surprise, of course. But for those who don’t know Rich Homie Quan and the impact that he’s had on the music scene globally, can you sort of speak to that a bit and just get people caught up on what his life and legacy?
Yeah, definitely. So Rich Homie Quan, he came into prominence in Atlanta around 2012 2013, and he came in prominence at a time when Atlanta was kind of going through a transition from the outkast ti jeezy Gucci man era. And it was a new group of artists that was coming up where there was Rich Homie Kwan, young thug future. He was a part of this group that was really taking Atlanta’s music scene to that next level. And we just saw his rise as an independent artiste, 2012 2013, and he became, you know, a global sensation. And so someone like Rich Homie Quan, his loss is there, is definitely impactful to the Atlanta industry.
We’ve seen Rich Homie Kwan. His music, of course, was huge, like you said, in the Atlanta music scene, but also globally. He was marking and making his way up the Billboard charts in the early two thousands and the mid two thousands as well. He also was able to be nominated for an I Heart media award, BET awards as well. The impact, again that he had on the music industry, he sort of changed the way him and young thug, the way that music sounds. Can you sort of speak to that and what that kind of meant to other artists all across the country.
Yeah. So rich, Homie Quan, he came into prominence again at a time when Atlanta was going through a transition from a musical standpoint. Him, young thug, future, they all had this melodic type of flow that they would use, and it was different from what was pretty much presented earlier in Atlanta music, where we had the crunk era. You had early forms of trap music where rich, Homie Kwan was more melodic. He was someone who, he wasn’t a singer, but his songs were very rhythmic, and you could kind of hear the melodies in his music. And so he was someone who kind of ushered in a new sound in Atlanta, hip hop and pretty much hip hop nationwide from a global standpoint, because as we all know, the sounds from Atlanta pretty much influenced the world. And so rich, Homie Kwan was one of the individuals who helped to influence not just the Atlanta sound, but hip hop overall.