Quality Control Music has confirmed that cofounder Pierre “P” Thomas is alive and hospitalized, shutting down rumors that spread online Friday claiming he had died.
The label posted a statement to its Instagram account saying Thomas is alive and currently hospitalized receiving medical care. It asked people to keep him and his family in their thoughts and prayers, and to respectfully give them the privacy and space they need. The statement closed by thanking everyone for their concern and support.
The clarification came hours after TMZ reported Friday morning that Thomas was in the intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital following a heart attack, with family members at his side consulting with doctors. Between that report and the label’s statement, unverified claims that he had died moved across social media fast enough that Quality Control felt it had to respond publicly.
Baller Alert did not report those claims, and this is why. A man is in a hospital bed. His family is in the building making decisions with his doctors. When a rumor gets ahead of the facts in a situation like that, the people it lands hardest on are relatives who find out through a push notification that somebody they love is supposedly gone. The label had to stop what it was doing and put out a statement to tell the public their cofounder is still breathing, which is not something any family should have to do from a waiting room.
Thomas cofounded Quality Control in 2013 with Kevin “Coach K” Lee and built it into the label behind Migos, Lil Baby, Lil Yachty and City Girls, with Cardi B managed under the company early in her career. The two of them put a million dollars and a year into constructing their own headquarters in west Atlanta with four recording studios, then hired their own radio and promotion staff rather than relying on someone else’s infrastructure. They expanded into athlete representation with Quality Control Sports in 2019, and in February 2023 the parent company was acquired by HYBE America in a deal reported at $300 million, with Thomas and Lee keeping control of the label.
He has spoken often about the years before any of it, when he was on parole and could not get anyone to hire him, and has described himself as the person who broke a cycle of poverty in his family.
Quality Control has not shared any further detail about his condition, and no one speaking for the family has commented beyond the label’s statement. Baller Alert will update when there is confirmed information.
