Hit boy

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Hit-Boy , sometimes also spelled Hit Boy , is the stage name of Chauncey Hollis (born May 21, 1987 ). He is an American music producer and rapper from Fontana , California .

biography

Start of career

Hollis started rapping at the age of 13. At 15 he learned to produce from a friend and made music with him under the name Frontrunners . At the age of 17, he founded the Hit Boys duo with another friend and uploaded his music to the MySpace platform . After separating from his colleague, he simply deleted the plural -s from the name and from then on used the pseudonym Hit-Boy as his own stage name. He continued to post his productions on the World Wide Web , which is why Polow da Don , who also worked as a producer, discovered him and signed him for the Interscope - Imprint Zone 4 .

First successes

His first professionally published work eventually appeared on Jennifer Lopez 's album Brave . Here Hit-Boy contributed to the production of the track Forever . In 2009 a production of his was released as a single for the first time . It was the song Stronger performed by Mary J. Blige from the soundtrack to the documentary More Than a Game , which deals with the high school days of LeBron James . The following year he achieved his first chart success on the Billboard Hot 100 with Drop the World by Lil Wayne featuring Eminem . The song he produced reached number 18 there.

GOOD Music and niggas in Paris

In 2011 he was hired by Kanye West as a house producer for his label GOOD Music for two years . Hit-Boy had previously met West at the Record Plant recording studio in Los Angeles , where he gave him a demo recording . This connection led not only to the collaboration with the GOOD Music artists Pusha T , John Legend and Big Sean , but also to the 2011 piece Niggas in Paris , interpreted by Jay-Z and Kanye West. It became Hit-Boys' greatest success when it was listed at number 5 on the US charts at the beginning of 2012. In addition, he received the Grammy Award for Best Rap Song for his songwriting on this work .

Career as a rapper

From 2012 Hit-Boy began to appear again as a rapper. At first he was heard on several mixtapes before his contract with Good Music expired in 2013 and he was finally given another contract with Interscope, which also guaranteed him his own imprint, Hits Since '87 . In 2014 he only released the digital album We the Plug , which presented him and the artists he signed. It was able to place itself in various division charts of Billboard magazine .

In addition, a few singles appeared under his own name from 2013, but they remained without commercial significance.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Racks In The Middle (with Nipsey Hussle & Roddy Ricch )
  UK 59 04/18/2019 (2 weeks)
  US 26th 
platinum
platinum
04/13/2019 (11 weeks)
Bezerk (with Big Sean & A $ AP Ferg )
  US 89 
gold
gold
14.09.2019 (1 week)

As the main artist

Singles

  • 2013: Show Me Something (featuring B. Carr)
  • 2014: Fan (featuring 2 Chainz )
  • 2015: Automatically
  • 2015: Stay Up (featuring Sage the Gemini & K. Roosevelt)
  • 2015: Bussin Moves (featuring Pusha T & Quentin Miller)
  • 2015: That's What I Get (featuring James Fauntleroy )

As a producer

Singles

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Natalie Robehmed: Hit-Boy's Quest To Make More Than Hits. Forbes , March 31, 2015, accessed July 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ Billboard : Lil Wayne - Chart history
  3. ↑ Billboard: Top 100 Songs - The week of January 7, 2012
  4. ↑ Allmusic : We the Plug - HS87 | Songs, reviews, credits
  5. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  6. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  7. ↑ RIAA : Database with search for "Drop the World"
  8. ↑ RIAA: database with search for "in Paris"
  9. ↑ GRAMMY.com : Past Winners Search for "" Chauncey Hollis ""
personal data
SURNAME Hit boy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hollis, Chauncey (real name); Hit Boy (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer and rapper
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1987