Kenny Beats Young Boy Never Broke Again

American record producer, audio engineer, and songwriter

Kenny Beats
Kenny Beats at Hard Summer 2019 Music Festival
Background information
Birth name	Kenneth Charles Blume III
Born	(1991-05-10) May 10, 1991 (age 31) Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop, R&B, jazz
Instruments	Digital audio workstation Ableton Live Drums Guitar Piano
Website	Official Instagram (verified)

Musical artist

Kenneth Charles Blume III, known professionally as Kenny Beats, is an American record producer, audio engineer, and songwriter.^[1]

Early life [edit]

Kenneth Blume III was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. He has been studying music since the age of 9 when he started playing the guitar, playing drums since the age of 11, and producing music since his sophomore year of high school.^[2] ^[3] His first guitar was a Fender Stratocaster and his first amplifier was a Fender Hot-Rod Deluxe.^[4] During his junior year at Greenwich High School, he was able to enter a national electronic-music competition hosted by the National Association for Music Education (NAFME) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA).^[2] ^[5] Blume III won second place in the competition, which motivated him to start taking music production seriously.^[2] ^[5]

After he graduated high school, he moved to New York, where he started interning for Cinematic Music Group in the summer of 2010.^[2] His internship at CMG led to his collaboration with artist Smoke DZA on 4 of his albums.^[2] It was also during the year 2010 when his music attracted the attention of Levi Maestro, leading to their collaboration on an ad campaign for Brisk.^[2] After spending some time in NY, he moved to Boston and studied Jazz Guitar and Music Business at Berklee College of Music.^[3]

Musical style [edit]

Kenny's production style varies. His digital audio workstation (DAW) of choice is Ableton Live. He plays piano, bass guitar, electric guitar^[6] & drums and often implements live instrumentation into his instrumentals, whether it performed by him or from a fellow instrumentalist.^[7] ^[8]

A lot of his productions credits often fall into the Trap music sub-genre of hip-hop, commonly using 16th/8th note hi-hats with slight variation (such as rolls), hard-hitting kick drums, snares & booming 808 bass shots. He also explores more versatile instrumentation, tempos, production styles etc. such as with the likes of the more laid back and instrumental approach of songs such as singer Dominic Fike's "Phone Numbers" which contains a live guitar sample (performed by SNL lead guitarist Jared Scharff) ^[8] and a more acoustic feel, backed by a Virtual Studio Technology (VST) version of a real electric bass within Ableton Live that plays the bass line, provided via the Kontakt (sampler) VST - or a more experimental sound, found within his collaborative project with rapper Denzel Curry "Unlocked" which contains many spoken word samples scattered throughout the tracks and a more disjointed feel, provided by various creative implementations of obscure musical samples found throughout the project. His songs often begin with the producer tag "Whoa, Kenny!", which was originally said by the Atlanta rapper KEY!, who is a frequent collaborator of Kenny's.^[9]

He has often talked about the importance of being in person with an artist he is recording and producing for, stating how valuable it can be to have immediate feedback on ideas and enhance the overall creativity and music that is produced.^[10]

LOUDPVCK [edit]

In 2009, while attending Berklee College of Music, Kenny met Ryan Marks, a DJ. These two became friends, and in 2012, they decided to form the EDM duo Loudpvck.^[11] Marks ultimately left the group in 2017 while Kenny transitioned from being a EDM producer to a hip-hop producer.

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Kenny calls his studio "The Cave", and beginning in March 2019, Kenny launched a YouTube series of the same name called "The Cave", in which he invites artists to rap 16-32 bars over a custom beat he creates during the video. Usually, the artists are people that he already has experience with, or, is already friends with.^[12] They come in, tell him what kind of beat they want, and in 10 to 15 minutes, he'll have something ready that caters to that particular style. The Cave is known for showcasing not only these artists' lyricism, but their personalities. As of April 1, 2020, Kenny has uploaded 23 episodes and amassed just over 31 million views. In addition to being his studio and the name of his YouTube series, "The Cave" is also the home to D.O.T.S. (Don't Over Think Shit), a creative group that assists artists with their artistic vision.^[13]

Production discography [edit]

2010 [edit]

Smoke DZA - Substance Abuse 1.5: The Headstash

02. "Headstash" (featuring Den10)

Smoke DZA - George Kush Da Button

01. "Continental Kush Breakfast" (featuring Den10)

2011 [edit]

Smoke DZA - The Hustler's Catalog

14. "Profit" (produced with 183rd)

Smoke DZA - Rolling Stoned

05. "Ball Game" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) (produced with 183rd)
09. "Pow Wow" (featuring Dom Kennedy) (produced with 183rd)

Skeme - Before My Next Statement

05. "Truth"

Smoke DZA - Sweet Baby Kushed God

01. "Smokey Klause" (produced with 183rd)

2012 [edit]

ScHoolboy Q -

"Party"

Smoke DZA - K.O.N.Y.

09. "Diamond" (featuring Ab-Soul)

Skeme - Alive & Living

16. "Everything On Me"

Jet Life - Jet World Order 2

06. "24 Hrs" (featuring Trademark Da Skydiver and Young Roddy)

2014 [edit]

Ab-Soul - These Days...

03. "Hunnid Stax" (featuring ScHoolboy Q)

2016 [edit]

Lucki - Son of Sam

01. "Double Check"
05. "His Only..."

Skywlkr - Joints

01. "3 Drugs" (featuring Kenny Beats) [produced with Skywlkr]

2017 [edit]

Lucki -

"Live It"

Hoodrich Pablo Juan and Kenny Beats - South Dark ^[14]

01. "Dead End"
02. "Everyday"
03. "Ruthless" (featuring Duke)
04. "Do This"
05. "C Sick"
06. "3 Point Stance"
07. "Hood" (featuring Baby Uiie)

DJ Lucas -

"Big Dope"^[15]

Lil Wop - Wopavelli 3

05. "Topgolf"
09. "Dope Man"
10. "Walking Dead"
11. "Friday the 13th"
14. "Grow Up"
16. "Xans" (produced with ChaseTheMoney)

2018 [edit]

YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Until Death Call My Name

09. "Traumatized" (produced with Judge)

Key! and Kenny Beats - 777

01. "Demolition 1 + 2"
02. "Hater"
03. "Blurry"
04. "Boss"
05. "Move"
06. "Famous"
07. "It Gets Better"
08. "Kelly Price Freestyle"
09. "Love On Ice"
10. "Dig It"
11. "Toronto"
12. "True Love Interlude"
13. "Control"
14. "Twisted"
15. "Squeamish"

Freddie Gibbs - Freddie

02. "Automatic"
03. "Death Row" (featuring 03 Greedo; produced with Freddie Kane)
07. "Set Set"
08. "Toe Tag"
09. "FBC" (produced with A. Lau and Tony Seltzer)

Zack Fox -

"Square Up"

Vince Staples - FM! ^[16]

01. "Feels Like Summer"
02. "Outside!"
03. "Don't Get Chipped" (produced with Cubeatz)
05. "New earlsweatshirt"
07. "FUN!" (produced with Hagler)
08. "No Bleedin"
09. "Brand New Tyga"
10. "(562) 453-9382"
11. "Tweakin" (produced with KillaGraham)

JPEGMafia and Kenny Beats -

"Puff Daddy"

10k.Caash - The Creator

02. "Mutumbo" (featuring Rico Nasty)
10. "Aloha" (featuring GUN40)

JID - DiCaprio 2 ^[17]

02. "Slick Talk" (produced with EWonder and Christo)

Ski Mask the Slump God - Stokeley

03. "Foot Fungus" (produced with Roofeeo) ^[18]
05. "Unbothered"

2019 [edit]

Rico Nasty and Kenny Beats - Anger Management

01. "Cold"
02. "Cheat Code" (featuring Baauer)
03. "Hatin"
04. "Big Titties" (featuring Baauer & EARTHGANG)
05. "Nasty World (skit)"
06. "Relative"
07. "Mood" (featuring Splurge)
08. "Sell Out"
09. "Again"

Zack Fox and Kenny Beats -

"Jesus Is the One (I Got Depression)"^[19]

Dominic Fike - Single ^[20]

"Phone Numbers"^[21]

Ed Sheeran - No.6 Collaborations Project

04. "Take Me Back to London" (featuring Stormzy) (produced with Skrillex and FRED) ^[22]

Gucci Mane - Delusions of Grandeur

06. "Proud of You" (produced with Nils) ^[23]
15. "Us"^[24]

Rexx Life Raj - Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There

03. "Moonwalk"^[25]

Yung Bans - Misunderstood

07. "Touch the Stars (featuring Lil TJay)"^[26]

FKA twigs - Magdalene

04. "Holy Terrain (feat. Future)" (produced with FKA twigs, Jack Antonoff, Skrillex, Sounwave, Lewis Roberts, and Noah Goldstein) ^[27]

DaBaby - Kirk

08. "Toes (featuring Lil Baby & Moneybagg Yo)" (produced with Queen Sixties) ^[28]

03 Greedo and Kenny Beats - Netflix and Deal

01. "Traffic" (produced with Captain Crunch)
02. "Paid in Full" (produced with Nils)
03. "Disco Shit" (featuring Freddie Gibbs)
04. "Maria" (produced with 1Mind)
05. "Blue People" (featuring Vince Staples)
06. "Beg Your Pardon" (featuring Maxo Kream)
07. "Honey I Shrunk The Kids"
08. "Brad Pitt" (produced with Nils)
09. "Aye Twin" (featuring Key!) (produced with Dylan Brady)
10. "Life"
11. "Payback" (featuring Ohgeesy) (produced with Judge Beats)
12. "Soul Food" (featuring Buddy) (produced with Elijah Rawk)
13. "Dead Presidents"

2020 [edit]

Key Glock - Yellow Tape

11. "Loaded"

Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats - UNLOCKED

01. "Track 01"
02. "Take_it_Back_v2"
03. "Lay_Up.m4a"
04. "Pyro (leak 2019)"
05. "DIET_"
06. "So.Incredible.pkg"
07. "Track07"
08. "'Cosmic'.m4a"

Deb Never and Kenny Beats -

"Stone Cold"

James Vickery - Overture

01. "Tear It Apart"

ICECOLDBISHOP and KENNY BEATS -

"DICKIES SUIT"

Slowthai

"MAGIC"

Aitch - Polaris

01. "Safe to Say" (produced with Cubeatz)

IDLES - Ultra Mono

02. "Grounds"

Trash Talk and Kenny Beats - Squalor

01. "Point No Point"
02. "Something Wicked"
03. "Worst of Times"
04. "Clutch/A.N.M."
05. "Kicking & Screaming"

SL - Selhurst SE25

02. "Bad Luck"
03. "Little Bird"
04. "Leave Me Alone"

ICECOLDBISHOP and Kenny Beats -

"TRICK DADDY"

Smino, JID, and Kenny Beats -

"Baguetti"

Dominic Fike - What Could Possibly Go Wrong

14. "Florida"

James Vincent McMorrow and Kenny Beats -

"I Should Go"

Joji - Nectar

"Mr. Hollywood"

Fivio Foreign and Kenny Beats -

"Bop It" (featuring Polo G)

Benee - Hey U X ^[29]

10. "Night Garden"

Bastille - Goosebumps EP ^[30]

"Goosebumps"

2021 [edit]

Flo Milli

"Roaring 20s"

347aidan

"IDWK"

slowthai - TYRON

9. "Focus" (produced with Dominic Maker)
10. "Terms (featuring Dominic Fike & Denzel Curry)" (produced with Dominic Maker and JD. Reid)

Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - Unlocked 1.5

So.Incredible.pkg (Robert Glasper Version)
Track07 (Georgia Anne Muldrow Version)
Cosmic'.m4a (The Alchemist Version)
Take_it_Back_v2 (Charlie Heat Version)
Pyro (Sango Leak)
Lay_Up.m4a (Jay Versace Version)
DIET_1.5
Take_it_Back_v2 (GODMODE 950 Version)

Vince Staples - Vince Staples

01. "ARE YOU WITH THAT?" (produced with Reske)
02. "LAW OF AVERAGES" (produced with Reske)
03. "SUNDOWN TOWN"
04. "THE SHINING" (produced with WahWah James and Harper Gordon)
05. "TAKING TRIPS" (produced with Monte Booker)
06. "THE APPLE & THE TREE"
07. "TAKE ME HOME"
08. "LIL FADE"
09. "LAKEWOOD MALL"
10. "MHM" (produced with Nils)

IDLES - CRAWLER

01. "MTT 420 RR"
02. "The Wheel"
03. "When the Lights Come On"
04. "Car Crash"
05. "The New Sensation"
06. "Stockholm Syndrome"
07. "The Beachland Ballroom"
08. "Crawl!"
09. "Meds"
10. "Kelechi"
11. "Progress"
12. "Wizz"
13. "King Snake"
14. "The End"

Roddy Ricch - Live Life Fast

11. "Murda One" (featuring Fivio Foreign) (produced with Nils)

2022 [edit]

Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart

1. "THE BEACH"
3. "DJ QUIK"
4. "MAGIC (featuring Mustard)"
7. "EAST POINT PRAYER (featuring Lil Baby)"
10. "LEMONADE (featuring Ty Dolla Sign)"
13. "BANG THAT (featuring Mustard)"
15. "ROSE STREET"
16. "THE BLUES"

Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future

7. "Troubles (featuring T-Pain)"

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Official Instagram (verified)

marshallsmadvow.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Beats