Kenny Beats
LOUIE
LOUIE
As one of rap’s most commanding new presences, Kenny Beats has produced career-defining music for the likes of NBA Youngboy, Rico Nasty, FKA Twigs, Freddie Gibbs and Vince Staples, and recorded agit-punk for Bristol’s IDLES straight to tape.
He has also reimagined what it means to be a producer today, leading a generation of bedroom beatmakers through his various tutorial live streams and the episodic production series The Cave.
On LOUIE, Kenny draws on the rich soul-soaked traditions of outliers like J.Dilla, Madlib and D’Angelo, to explore themes of his own family, childhood, and upbringing for the first time. A tribute to Kenny's overall relationship to music, LOUIE enlists an ensemble cast of collaborators and players to offer up a new kind of producer album, adding all new layers to his own still-growing voice.
Tracklist
1. Leonard
2. Parenthesis
3. Hold My Head
4. So They Say
5. Family Tree
6. Hooper
7. Still
8. Moire
9. Get Around
10. Eternal
11. Last Words
12. Drop 10
13. The Perch
14. Really Really
15. That Third Thing
16. Rotten
17. Hot Hand
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As one of rap’s most commanding new presences, Kenny Beats has produced career-defining music for the likes of NBA Youngboy, Rico Nasty, FKA Twigs, Freddie Gibbs and Vince Staples, and recorded agit-punk for Bristol’s IDLES straight to tape.
He has also reimagined what it means to be a producer today, leading a generation of bedroom beatmakers through his various tutorial live streams and the episodic production series The Cave.
On LOUIE, Kenny draws on the rich soul-soaked traditions of outliers like J.Dilla, Madlib and D’Angelo, to explore themes of his own family, childhood, and upbringing for the first time. A tribute to Kenny's overall relationship to music, LOUIE enlists an ensemble cast of collaborators and players to offer up a new kind of producer album, adding all new layers to his own still-growing voice.
1. Leonard
2. Parenthesis
3. Hold My Head
4. So They Say
5. Family Tree
6. Hooper
7. Still
8. Moire
9. Get Around
10. Eternal
11. Last Words
12. Drop 10
13. The Perch
14. Really Really
15. That Third Thing
16. Rotten
17. Hot Hand