BEHIND THE BEAT

BEHIND THE BEAT

BEHIND THE BEAT

professionally known as Hendrix Smoke, is an esteemed American hip-hop producer, renowned for his innovative contributions to the music industry. He rose to mainstream recognition in 2023 following his string of successful productions with all star Atlanta native ATL JACOB, having formerly served as an in-house producer for his record label, Trimmm Records. His production style has been described as "dark" or “melodic.”Born in Carbondale, IL and raised in Paducah, KY.

Miller began his career in music production in 2010 at the age of 15; 2015 he relocated to Los Angeles and continued to work extensively with artist such as lil Wayne, curren$y, 2chainz, G herbo, and bloc boy jb. Miller started gaining a small stream of success for producing on 2chainz 2020 “SO HELP ME GOD” album, which peaked at 24 on billboard 200. In 2022, he produced the singles “Spending spree” by Babyface Ray and Veeze. “Unacceptable” by cordae and produced the intro on Glorilla’s debut ep “Anyways, life’s great” which peaked at 11 on billboard 200.

The following year, he produced the singles “Last time I saw you” for Nicki Minaj which made that his first billboard hot 100 which peaked at 8 on the charts, and “Luna” by feid which peaked 23 on the billboard global 200 charts.

Derrick Donte Miller,