Milwaukee rapper Funny $Money killed in a shooting at 33

Funny $Money, a rapper from Milwaukee, has died at 33. Pitchfork reported on August 18 that he was one of two people killed in a shooting in the city's Old North neighborhood the previous day, citing WISN 12 News. His name was Quentene Williams.

His nephew told the station that the last thing he said to his uncle was "I love you and be safe," and that his uncle answered that he was always safe. Pitchfork carried no further detail from police about the shooting or about the second person who died.

Writing about his work, Pitchfork called him one of the linchpins of the recent Milwaukee hip-hop boom, a punchline rapper with an ear for R&B samples, and said he had turned up on songs with most of the city's newer names, among them Sme Taxfree, Chicken P and Superthrowed Fay Fay.

His tapes included Don't Talk 2 Much in 2022, which carried the single "Rocky Balboa," and I Got the Hook Up Vol. 1: Big Bucks No Whammies in 2024, which the outlet read as a loose homage to No Limit. Pitchfork wrote that when the local scene hit lows, his tapes kept coming.

In a December 2025 interview on the Kid L Podcast, he said watching rappers such as Larry Bird and Gwapo Chapo come up while he was in prison pushed him to take a career in music seriously. He said that before then he had been "too focused on the street life."