Atlanta hip-hop community remembers icon Rich Homie Quan

Published: Sep 05, 2024 Duration: 00:02:09 Category: News & Politics

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Developing tonight. And 11 officials are now working to try to find out how an Atlanta rapper died. Police say Dawn's devote Lamar, better known as Rich Homie Kwan was found unresponsive at his Southwest Atlanta home. Today, 11 live's Joe Ripley explains how the hip hop community is remembering him tonight. All right, y'all welcome to the Trap Music Museum. Mourning a tragic loss inside Atlanta's Trap Music Museum. If this guy's influence on the way that people rap and how trap music kind of evolved, we can't talk about the city of Atlanta and trap music. If we don't talk about Rich Homie Kwon CJ Williams learned Atlanta native Deante Devante Lamar, otherwise known as rapper Rich Homie Kwan died Thursday. You never can really be in a space to expect to lose a person that has been so instrumental and legendary to the city of Atlanta. I need an ambulance. Atlanta police got the call from Rich Homie Kwan's girlfriend Thursday to Hampden Forest Drive in Southwest Atlanta never got up. I don't feel a heartbeat. I don't see him breathing. He found at the mouth, an ambulance took to the hospital where he was pronounced dead Williams says music was Kan's way of overcoming trials and tribulation. Juan rose to fame in the early 20 tens. Trailblazing the evolution of trap music with songs like type of way and flex. He helped form the group Rich Gang, which included rapper Young Thug, an artist currently in the spotlight in the young slime life trial to talk about one, you have to talk about the other young thug and Rich Homie Kwan were like a two sided coin or a double edged knife. Williams says Rich Homie Kwan's passing presents a chance to remember, reflect and reignite the future stars of hip hop. The music will live on and now people are going to go back and listen to all his old music and someone is going to be inspired. The GB I says it will conduct an autopsy Friday to determine exactly how Rich Hoy Kwan died. Next month would have marked his 34th birthday.

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