Rapper Rich Homie Quan Died of an Accidental Drug Overdose

Rich Homie Quan/TikTokRich Homie Quan died September 5th when his girlfriend Amber Williams found his body unresponsive on the couch when he hadn’t moved since she went out taking her son to school. Close to a month after he was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital, his cause of death has now been released. The Fulton County Medical Examiner report stated his body had a number of drugs in it at the time of his death and that he died from a hazardous combination of fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine and promethazine. And his death was ruled an accident. No signs of trauma were found on his body, either.

Since his passing his estate has released a post-humous music video for his new track Song Cry, which originally debuted at his funeral last month. The video showed unreleased footage of him working on the music mixed with videos from the funeral itself. The song has been described as introspective and expressing the perils of the trappings of fame. “Aye, this one here personal,” he says in the intro. “I know a lot of my songs, y’all don’t take serious in a way, but I want y’all to turn this one up.” Talking about witnessing the death of a friend and betrayal, he said he smokes weed to “fake my feelings.” He goes on to sing-rap saying “I have been through so much shit, wish you could hear my tears.”

Drugs were an immediate go to for many as a cause of death as this was very reminiscent to a 2014 music video shoot incident where he collapsed while allegedly having a seizure from sipping lean, and fell bumping his head on a railing in an Atlanta park. Following the incident that started as him shooting his video for his big hit Walk Thru that lead him to being hospitalized for falling and “cracking his head,” he immediately said the reports weren’t true. In a statement to Billboard at the time he said, “I just want to thank my fans and everyone who has called concerned about me. I want to clear up two things, after being in 3 states in 3 days, up early having to shoot my video for ‘Walk Thru’ and even sleeping in between scenes on top of filming in this humid Atlanta heat, I fainted and hit my head.”

He continued, “It’s no secret that I do turn up, I don’t deny that but I’m not addicted to anything including drugs nor was I leaning at the shoot. The media is gonna put fake stories out there but I just want to let my fans know that I’m good and recovering. The second thing is, I promised I will never stop going in and I mean that.” He publicist even said he didn’t have any seizures. Now the significance here is that whether he did or didn’t, it was a big thing at the time with artists like Lil Wayne having seizures from the drug and even had to go so far as having his plane make two emergency landings just in 2016. The issue in his case is that he has a history of epilepsy so he already has seizures without being under the influence so the last thing he needs is a drug to further complicate things. Rick Ross said he was sipping lean and had seizures so bad he defecated in the bed. Either way, here it is a decade later and he died with something in his system his publicist said he didn’t have a problem with.
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