Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan has died | LiveNOW from FOX

Welcome back and here at a live now from Fox. I'm your host. Christina Evans. We are continuing to follow more breaking news from around the country and this story is coming out of Atlanta, Georgia. want to pull up a tweet for you right now. We do know it is now been confirmed that rich Homie Quan the rapper has passed away at the 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 Quan as this tweet said, 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 and our hearts. go out to his friends and family rest in power Quan. Now 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 Quan and extensively covered him. Let's listen into those comments here on live. Now, Journalists and author of trap history. and the Atlanta culture and the End of trap music. are 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 seeing globally. Can you sort of speak to that a bit and just give people caught up on what his life and Legacy. Yeah, definitely. So rich. Homie Quan. he came into prominence uh in Atlanta. around. 2012, 2013. and he came, he came in promised at a time When Atlanta was kind of going through a transition from uh, the outcast TI Jeezy Gucci Mane era and it was a new uh, group of artists that was coming up whether it was, uh, Rich Homie, Quan a young thug, few. future, He was a part of this group, that was really taking Atlanta's music scene to that next. level. and uh, we just saw his rise as an independent artist. 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 Quan, his music of course, was huge. Like you said in the Atlanta music scene. but also globally, he was marking in making his way up the Billboard charts in the early. 2000s and the mid 2000s as well. He also was able to be nominated for an iHeart media award BT 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 Kwan. He he came uh into prominence again at a time when Atlanta was going through a transition from a from a musical standpoint. And him Young Thugs future, they all had this melodic type of uh, flow that they would use And, and it was different from what, what was pretty much. uh, 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 he was someone who uh, you know, he was on the singer but his his songs were very rhythmic and you could, you can kind of, you know, hear the Melodies and his music. And so he was someone who kind of ushered in A new sound, uh, in Atlanta, Hip Hop and pretty much hip-hop. uh Nationwide from a global standpoint because as we all know, the sounds from Atlanta pretty much influenced the world. And so, which homie Quan was 1 of the individuals who helped to influence. Uh, not just the Atlanta sound but hip hop overall. Absolutely. And we're seeing rest in peace seeing flow in from all over the country. other artists who respected him. And it's just going to be a tough hit for those in the music industry. And of course, anybody who enjoys the type of music that he made and played, Yeah, definitely. I mean you got you have to understand is that uh a lot of people grew up on his music and you know, there's a whole generation. uh that adults now uh, millennials. uh, who who grew up on Rich Homie Quan and and some gen zers who grew up listening to his music and, and, and uh, you know for to see someone pass. Uh again, uh, you know, we some of the reports are saying that there was an overdose uh, but you know, to see, you know another person a young person Uh, pass is going to definitely just, you know, have another It's it's another sore uh another black guy for the Hip Hop community. Absolutely. And like, you're just mentioning another 1, this isn't an uncommon occurrence unfortunately in hip-hop we've seen several artists pass in the last few years whether it's to the gun violence or drug overdose doses which there's no current cause of death out there right now. But just thinking about that. How do you think that people are going to react to continuing to see young artists who are inspiring them? pass away at such a young age? Yeah, I mean it's something that needs to be addressed. I mean, we're seeing uh, young individuals passed just a few days ago. uh, fat man scoop who was a who was a major artist? Uh, in in the industry he passed and we seen, we're seeing that a lot of artists. are passing at a young age. due to either poor health. violence. or a drug overdose And so it's something that as a community in hip Hop it needs to be addressed, You know why? are young artists dying so young And so I think, you know, we we have to talk about mental health. We have to talk about. uh, the access to health care. Um, you know what's being done to really uh, ensure that these artists and not just the artists. But the people who follow the artists that if that, that, that there's some type of standard in terms of, checking for your mental health, checking, for just your health, your overall. How are you feeling on a day-to-day basis And so hopefully this is a wake-up call to just this generation about you know, what's important to to our lives. Because you know, we don't need another artist. Or anyone. uh, of that age to pass before their time. Absolutely. are. Thank you so much for joining us and just giving a little bit of insight. into the Life and Legacy of Rich Homie, Quan thank you for joining us That I hope you have the good rest of your