Atlanta Rapper Rich Homie Quan Dies at Age 34

Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper known for hits like ‘Type of Way’ and ‘Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)’ and his Rich Gang collaboration with another rapper Young Thug was announced dead. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office has announced the death of this up-and-rising rapper. However, the cause of death is still unknown. Rich Homie Quan was 34 years old.

Born Dequantes Devontay Lamar in Atlanta, Georgia, Rich Homie Quan’s passion was not just music, but he excelled at baseball. He eventually starred at DeKalb County’s Ronald E. He learned to write creatively at McNair High School and he specifically credited his teacher Miss Butch for inspiring him in a 2018 essay for Talkhouse. “She’d be like, ‘I just want you to write. Close your eyes and just think about what you’re writing about,’” Quan wrote.“ And every time I would close my eyes, they would turn to poems.”

After passing high school Quan ended up in jail and while incarcerated, he focused on reading, writing, and turning himself into a legitimate rapper. “When I got locked up, I started to think about everything I was good at,” he told XXL, in an interview in 2014. He was named to the publication’s vaunted Freshman Class. “When I was a kid I loved to read. Literature was my favorite subject. I loved creative writing classes. So when I got locked up, I read my first book in jail. I have been reading for years, but I read my first book in jail with understanding. When I learned how to really read a book, it took my mind to another place. So after that, then I started writing poems, and after that my poems didn’t sound like poems, they sounded like rhymes. I was like, ‘Let me see if I can put it on a beat.’”

In 2012, Rich Homie Quan released his first mixtape ‘I Go In on Every Song’. The first release was quickly followed by ‘Still Goin In’ and ‘Still Goin In – Reloaded’. The latter project contained his first household hit ‘Type of Way’, an enchanting Atlanta trap record that reached No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song showcased Quan’s vocal texture and its richness. In just a few words, he captured the feelings at the heart of many great songs: “Some type of way, make you feel some type of way.”

The song was later re-released by Def Jam Recordings. This made Quan a sought-after collaborator and he was soon featured on YG’s My Krazy Life standout “My N—a,” Yo Gotti’s “I Know,” and many more. Quan found his ultimate success with another rapper Young Thug which came with 2014’s “Lifestyle.” Sheldon Pearce wrote reflecting on the song in 2019, “On ‘Lifestyle,’ their Auto-Tuned warbles sounded as lush as the manners of living they envisioned in song: Thug bursting at the seams, puffing on clouds from the top of a mountain, Quan reclining with commas in every bank.”

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