Sidney Brown, the producer and DJ who labored with the likes of Drake, Beyoncé, and Lil Wayne beneath the identify Omen, has died. Brown was present in his Harlem, New York condominium on Saturday, September 13, by his sister, Nicole Iris Brown. “He was holistic and wholesome. So we don’t know of him being sick, so that is all fairly sudden,” she stated in an announcement to NBC Information. Brown was 49.
Born in Harlem in 1976, Brown produced for artists within the Roc-A-Fella Data orbit all through the late ’90s and early ’00s. He labored on Memphis Bleek’s Coming of Age, Mýa’s Moodring, and Fabolous’ Road Desires, amongst others. Brown additionally composed the rating for Paper Troopers, the 2002 rap comedy produced by Roc-A-Fella’s movie studio that gave Kevin Hart his big-screen debut.
In 2006, Brown made the beat for “Inform It Like It Is” from Ludacris’ Launch Remedy, which received Finest Rap Album on the 2007 Grammy Awards. Just a few years later, he met Drake by means of Noah “40” Shebib, and ended up co-producing “Shut It Down,” a The-Dream duet off the Canadian rapper’s 2010 debut Thank Me Later. Brown and Shebib would reunite on Lil Wayne’s “I’m Single” and once more on “Mine,” Beyoncé’s personal Drake duet from her 2013 self-titled album.
Brown’s final credited work as a producer was on Motion Bronson’s 2015 LP Mr. Great, although he continued to DJ at native bars and eating places. “I hope folks will keep in mind that he was keen to assist the youthful technology,” his sister instructed NBC. “He was at all times large on serving to youthful folks begin their careers and get themselves into the sport. It was about simply the music, irrespective of who the artist was.”
