Rich Brian

Rich Brian's story still feels improbable to me in the best way. A teenager in Jakarta, self-taught in English partly through the internet, drops Dat $tick on SoundCloud in 2016 and it goes properly viral, eventually certified gold. He came up under a clumsier name he wisely shed, and grew into a genuine artist rather than a meme. What I respect is the second act: it would have been easy to ride one fluke single, but he kept building as a rapper and singer and became a real face for Asian artists in hip-hop. Few people convert a viral moment into an actual career.

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Name (English)

Rich Brian

Name (Japanese)

リッチ・ブライアン

Reading

りっち・ぶらいあん

Born

September 3, 1999 (age 27)

Origin

Jakarta, Indonesia

Height

173 cm

Occupation

rapper / comedian

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Asia's Most Influential Indonesia

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brianimanuel/
• Xhttps://x.com/richbrian
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Brian
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27267034

Tags

• rapper
• comedian

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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