On a recent episode of the It’s Up There podcast, Rich Homie Quan’s father, Corey Lamar, addressed Birdman not showing up to his son’s funeral and revealed that he reached out.
“Bird[man] is who he is, man,” he said around the 26-minute mark. “At the end of the day, man, you accept people for who they are… Bird reached out to me, he did. Listen, the day that my son passed, he called my phone. Like, ‘Hey, fam, I’m here, if you need anything.’ He was being positive for me. ‘Look, I can’t tell you how to feel, but you know, keep your head up. I’m here for you if need anything, fam. Call me.’”
He said that Birdman checked in on him several times after Quan’s passing from an accidental overdose in 2024. “He reached out to me about two-three weeks ago, let me know that they was coming here and I was like, ‘I want to see you when I come,’” he continued.
Earlier in the interview, he suggested that he could “count on one hand” how many executives or corporate people in the music industry reached out to him to offer their condolences. He also said that he doesn’t think that enough people who worked with Quan showed up to the funeral, which was publicly hosted.
Later in the interview, he suggested that Rich Homie Quan “wouldn’t talk” to him about the dissolution of his friendship with Young Thug, with whom he made the fan-favorite track, “Lifestyle.”
“It affected Quan a lot,” he said. “But I know my son, bro. It had a profound effect on his everyday life, man. I know it did.”
Rich Homie Quan was part of the collective Rich Gang, alongside Birdman and Young Thug, among others. He was featured on both the group’s debut self-titled album, and the mixtape, Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt. 1. Thug and Quan made a huge impact with their 2014 single “Lifestyle,” which was intended to be the lead single on the second Rich Gang album that never came to fruition.
Thug and Quan drifted apart after their string of collaborations, and they publicly beefed after Thugger called him “Bitch Homie Quan” during a concert in 2015. Quan later said in an interview with WEDR 99 JAMZ in 2017 that there was “no bad blood” between them, but they don’t talk anymore.
As reported by Billboard, Thug expressed remorse that he wasn’t able to patch things up with his former collaborator before he died in an appearance on a stream with Adin Ross.
