"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."
"In 2006, Brown made the beat for "Tell It Like It Is" from Ludacris' Release Therapy, which won Best Rap Album at the 2007 Grammy Awards. A few years later, he met Drake through 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 again on "Mine," Beyoncé's own Drake duet from her 2013 self-titled album."
Sidney Brown, known professionally as Omen, was born in Harlem in 1976 and died at 49 after being found in his Harlem apartment on September 13. He produced for artists in the Roc-A-Fella Records orbit during the late 1990s and early 2000s, contributing to Memphis Bleek's Coming of Age, Mýa's Moodring, and Fabolous' Street Dreams, and composing the score for the 2002 film Paper Soldiers. He produced Ludacris's "Tell It Like It Is," co-produced Drake's "Shut It Down," and worked with Noah "40" Shebib on tracks for Lil Wayne and Beyoncé. His last credited production was on Action Bronson's 2015 Mr. Wonderful, and he continued DJing locally while mentoring younger artists.
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