34 Facts About Rich Brian

Rich Brian is known for his viral debut single "Dat $tick", which was first released in March 2016 on SoundCloud.

Rich Brian released another EP titled Brightside in January 2022.

Rich Brian has collaborated with many artists from China and South Korea such as Chungha, Keith Ape, Jackson Wang, and Jae Park.

Rich Brian Imanuel Soewarno was born on 3 September 1999 in Jakarta to Heru Soewarno and Megawati Purnomo.

Rich Brian has one older brother named Roy Leonard Soewarno and two older sisters named Stephanie and Sonia Eryka Soewarno.

Rich Brian was raised in West Jakarta in a middle-to-low class neighborhood.

In 2010, while growing up in Indonesia, Rich Brian began his career with social media when he was 11 years old.

Rich Brian discovered YouTube after he got a Rubik's Cube and realized he could log onto his parents' computer to find strategies for solving it faster.

Rich Brian moved to the platform Vine when he was 15 and began to post daily videos there.

Rich Brian taught himself to speak English by watching YouTube videos and by listening to rappers like Childish Gambino, 2 Chainz, Macklemore and Tyler, the Creator.

Rich Brian began to explore the genre, discovering Drake, 2 Chainz, Kanye West and Logic at first.

Rich Brian wrote his first rap song in 2014 and recorded it onto an iPhone microphone over an MF Doom produced instrumental.

Rich Brian originally wanted to become a cinematographer in Los Angeles, however he gave up the aspiration once his music career began taking off.

Rich Brian then went on to release his debut single "Dat Stick" on 11 March 2016.

Rich Brian then went on to release his second single titled "Who That Be" on iTunes on 9 August 2016.

Rich Brian then released a remix of his debut single "Dat Stick" which features rappers Ghostface Killah and Pouya.

Rich Brian later released his third single "Seventeen" which quickly surpassed the one million hits mark on both YouTube and SoundCloud.

Rich Brian released his fourth single "Back At It" on 19 April 2017.

Rich Brian won an award at the 4th Indonesian Choice Awards as Breakthrough Artist of the Year in May 2017.

Rich Brian released "Glow Like Dat" on 15 August 2017, through 88rising's YouTube channel.

Rich Brian later released the singles "Chaos" and "Crisis" featuring 21 Savage in October and November 2017 respectively.

On 19 December 2017, Rich Brian announced on the social media platform Twitter that he was releasing his debut studio album titled, Amen.

On 26 June 2019, Rich Brian released a new single, titled "Yellow", featuring the artist and producer Bekon and later announced his second studio album titled The Sailor.

Rich Brian then released the second single from the album "Kids" on 17 July 2019.

On 25 August 2020, Rich Brian released an EP titled 1999.

On 20 January 2022, Rich Brian released an EP titled Brightside.

On 18 October 2023, Rich Brian released a single titled "World Stop Tuning", featuring Warren Hue.

Rich Brian's song writing ability has been called "skilled" by HotNewHipHop.

Rich Brian, originally making comedic music, has since attempted to distance himself and make more serious music with singles such as "Seventeen" and "Glow Like Dat".

Rich Brian has cited Young Thug, Tyler, the Creator, Yung Lean, Childish Gambino and Project Pop as inspirations.

Rich Brian was admitted into the first round where he finished 51st out of 105, with a best of 20.44 seconds.

Rich Brian is not a permanent resident of the United States; though in July 2017, he extended his stay.

Brian's original stage name, Rich Chigga, created controversy in the past.

Rich Brian was homeschooled and has stated that he does not wish to seek college education, though if given the chance, he would attend film school.