{"id":32929,"date":"2024-10-02T03:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32929"},"modified":"2024-10-31T20:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:49:23","slug":"atlanta-rapper-rich-homie-quan-died-from-an-accidental-drug-overdose-medical-examiner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32929","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose, medical examiner says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">ATLANTA &#8212;&nbsp;Rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose, the medical examiner&#8217;s office in Georgia confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of death for the hip-hop performer, born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, was from a slew of drugs such as fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine and promethazine, according to a Fulton County medical examiner&#8217;s report obtained by People Magazine on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The report said that Quan showed no signs of trauma when his body was found. His death was ruled an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His brother told police that he thought Quan was asleep on the floor by the kitchen before he picked up the rapper and put him on the couch, saying it was \u201cvery unusual\u201d to see food still in his mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Later that morning, police were called by a woman who noticed that Quan\u2019s body was cold and he was not breathing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Quan, 33, who died at an Atlanta hospital on Sept. 5, was one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/47ad67b769734ccca7739204660a1dc9\"><u>biggest names in hip-hop<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in the mid-2010s. He gained mainstream fame through the trap singles \u201cFlex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)&#8221; and \u201cType of Way,&#8221; which became such a success that several other rappers jumped on the remix, including Jeezy and Meek Mill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Quan appeared on a YG track with Jeezy and released the London on da Track-produced song \u201cLifestyle\u201d through his Rich Gang rap collective that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/young-thug\"><u>included Young Thug<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;and Birdman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Quan followed up with \u201cFlex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),\u201d a song produced by DJ Spinz and Nitti Beatz. It became his highest charting solo single at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He was also featured on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/e426911bffa84aafb729729b0dc13d64\"><u>Lil Dicky\u2019s viral \u201c$ave Dat Money.\u201d<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, Quan debuted his first and only studio album \u201cRich as in Spirit,\u201d which mostly went without any features \u2014 except for \u201cThink About It,\u201d a single with Rick Ross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/atlanta-rapper-rich-homie-quan-died-accidental-drug-114410225\">Abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212;&nbsp;Rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose, the medical examiner&#8217;s office in Georgia confirmed. The cause of death for the hip-hop performer, born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, was from a slew of drugs such as fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine and promethazine, according to a Fulton County medical examiner&#8217;s report obtained by People Magazine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1247,1184,25364],"class_list":["post-32929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-death","tag-overdose","tag-rapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32931,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929\/revisions\/32931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}