Atlanta-based rapper Wealthy Homie Quan, recognized for hits like 2013’s “Sort of Manner” and 2015’s “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” has died on the age of 34, based on an announcement from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Workplace.
TMZ additionally reported on Thursday morning that the platinum-selling rapper, whose actual identify is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, handed away on September 5 at his Atlanta house. Particulars relating to the reason for dying haven’t been offered.
On Thursday night, the 911 name reportedly made by the daddy of 4’s girlfriend was launched. Throughout the name, Amber Williams acknowledged that she discovered Lamar’s lifeless physique on a sofa after dropping off their son at college.
Williams, who sounded noticeably shaken, talked about that Lamar had fallen asleep on the sofa the evening earlier than and hadn’t moved by the point she checked on him that morning. She defined that she had positioned a blanket over him, assuming he was nonetheless asleep, earlier than leaving to take her son to high school.
Nonetheless, upon returning house, she checked on him once more and “didn’t really feel a heartbeat” and seen he wasn’t respiration. “After I turned him over, he sort of foamed on the mouth,” stated Williams—who additionally goes by “Rella”—by tears.
A number of stories counsel Lamar might have died from a drug overdose, however that data has not been confirmed. An post-mortem is scheduled for Friday, based on Jimmy Sadler, the senior health worker investigator with the Fulton County Workplace.
Williams has but to launch an announcement about Lamar’s passing on her social media, however right here’s the whole lot to know in regards to the rapper’s longtime girlfriend and the mom of two of his kids.
Who Is Amber “Rella” Williams?
Born Amber Nicole Williams, the enterprise proprietor and make-up artist grew to become often known as the girlfriend of rapper Wealthy Homie Quan.
The 33-year-old was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up together with her youthful brother. She additionally has a historical past of working within the music business.
Youngsters
Whereas the couple had not tied the knot, Lamar and Williams had been elevating their two kids — 10-year-old Royal Lamar and 3-year-old Layor Leonis Lamar — collectively. (The rapper can also be a father to his oldest son, Devin, and one other son, Khosen, from earlier relationships.)
The pair’s older son, Royal, was not legally acknowledged as Lamar’s till 2020.
Based on courtroom paperwork obtained by The Blast, a Georgia decide signed a ultimate consent order within the case introduced by the “Way of life” rapper.
Simply 5 years earlier, Lamar and Williams determined to maneuver in collectively to lift their kids as co-parents whereas engaged on their relationship. That very same yr, the couple introduced they had been anticipating one other youngster, who was born later that yr.
At a gender reveal occasion, they shared that they had been anticipating a child boy, posting footage from the occasion on Instagram.
“Unity,” Williams wrote on her Instagram, together with a photograph of herself surrounded by household on the gender reveal celebration.
“Stunning household,” one fan commented. “Congratulations,” wrote a number of others.