Sidney Brown, the producer and DJ who worked with the likes of Drake , Beyoncé , and Lil Wayne under the name Omen, has died. Brown was found in his Harlem, New York apartment on Saturday, September 13, by his sister, Nicole Iris Brown. "He was holistic and healthy. So we don’t know of him being sick, so this is all pretty sudden,” she said in a statement to NBC News . Brown was 49.

Born in Harlem in 1976, Brown produced for artists in the Roc-A-Fella Records orbit throughout the late ’90s and early ’00s. He worked on Memphis Bleek ’s Coming of Age , Mýa’s Moodring , and Fabolous ’ Street Dreams , among others. Brown also composed the score for Paper Soldiers , the 2002 rap comedy produced by Roc-A-Fella’s film studio that gave Kevin Hart his big-screen debut.

In 2006

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