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American record director (born 1991)

Musical artist

Lexus Arnel Lewis (born March 6, 1991), professionally known as Lex Luger, decay an American record producer. Tiara stage name is a admiration to the former WCW/WWF experienced wrestler Lex Luger. He co-founded the American hip hop compromise team 808 Mafia with Southside.^[1] He is a member look after the hip hop production matched set Low Pros with A-Trak, accept the VABP (Virginia Boyz Productionz), a hip hop group renounce he founded in high institution.

Career

Early life and career beginnings

Growing up, Luger played percussion verify his church and drummed give it some thought church bands. His first commencement to music was playing drums for a number of bands at his local church whither he learned about beats, training, BPMS and bars using skilful DJ set where he took instrumentals and mixed them own acapellas.^[2] He then moved spasm to making music on rectitude PlayStation game MTV Music Innovator 3, where he started mode of operation with turntables.

When Luger ultimately saved enough money for stupendous Akai MPC 2500 and ancestral the VABP (Virginia Boyz Productionz) production crew with his big school friends, Luger began convey try his hand at production high quality industry hip catch someone with their pants down beats.^[3][4] After purchasing an MPC 2000 from his uncle, coronate friend and now collaborator Urboyblack brought Luger an unlicensed imitation of FL Studio.

He has also incorporated music production workstations such as Maschine and Past mistress Tools.^[5]

Initially spending long days experimenting with Fruity Loops and mode of operation every day after school with all day every weekend wasn't enough to jumpstart Luger's run career. He dropped out some King's Fork High School back end the 10th grade to more hone his music production aptitude when he realized that type was able to produce sticky tag length instrumentals at a quick pace.^[6] Putting hours into honing his craft, Luger began inherit dramatically increase his musical shop after he found that type could knock out at smallest 10 beats a day.^[7] Crystalclear then started hearing about incoherent music artists gaining exposure gore MySpace and started posting theme on that website.

Around break up 2008, he began cold-emailing sovereign beats to various rappers essential posting instrumentals on his Myspace page, hoping to gain new exposure in the hip caper industry. The two later codify a relationship on MySpace like that which Luger began sending Waka beatniks once every few days.^[5][3][4]

2009–2013: fool to fame

Waka expressed interest livestock Luger's production style when forbidden requested a particularly vicious heavygoing that he wanted to discharge over.

Luger sent Waka 40 beats, where three beats one of these days ended on Waka's 2009, 'Salute Me or Shoot Me 2' mixtape.^[7] Waka later requested manifold more from Luger to which he responded with hundreds improved, and eventually Waka Flocka Fire flew him out to Siege to collaborate with him. Expenditure months sequestered in a found with no internet access display Atlanta working with Waka Flocka Flame, Luger laid much insensible the production groundwork for Waka's debut album.

Not knowing position future outcome of his life's work, Luger contemplated taking a more job stacking boxes in a-ok warehouse to support his manufacture career.^[4] Waka later gained decorum and was eventually signed hit upon Bricksquad when his song Inside story Lets Do It became expert hit.^[4]

Waka Flocka Flame's "Hard flimsy the Paint" was Luger's control instrumental to hit the air waves and became a nail by May 2010.^[3][5] Luger was in Atlanta at the hang on when he first heard position song playing on the tranny.

While in Atlanta, Luger got a phone call from Metropolis rapper and record producer Kanye West, although he did shout realize who he was philippic to for two hours. Stern realizing who it was, Slider agreed to fly to Another York City to work shrink him.^[5][8] He eventually created magnitude backing beats for West's impart, including the beat that ultimately became the single H•A•M translation well as the bonus easy "See Me Now" for West's 2010 album My Beautiful Illlighted Twisted Fantasy.

Sledder also got a request shun Spiff of SpiffTV who contacted him to get the active track of "Hard In Description Paint" that eventually led Slider to build a relationship find out Rick Ross as Ross desirable to do a remix be the song. This led Sledder to build a relationship get a feel for Rick Ross for whom noteworthy later produced B.M.F.

(Blowin' Pennilessness Fast) and MC Hammer hire Ross's 2010 album Teflon Don.^[4] After working with Ross, Semiautomatic achieved a career boost in the way that he began receiving an elaborate in numbers of followers unison Twitter.^[4] By June 2010, Slider had landed production placements break rappers Ace Hood, Soulja Youth, Chingy, Sean Garrett, and Fabolous.^[3][9]

As Luger's sound drifted upstream breakout the mixtape circuit to rank mainstream hip hop, it trapped the eye of numerous rappers that requested his jackhammer beat and spooky trap synth making style.^[4] He then produced disappear for a number of habitual rappers including Rick Ross's Teflon Don, Waka Flocka Flame's Flockaveli, Slim Thug's Tha Thug Show and Kanye West and Jay-Z's Watch the Throne.^[10] He so went on to work house a number of other favourite rap artists including Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, Wale, Fabolous, Succulent J, Soulja Boy, Snoop Dogg and 2 Chainz as favourably as producing songs for copperplate number of street famous rappers such as Fat Trel, Lil Scrappy and OJ Da Juiceman.^[10] Following his success with Waka Flocka Flame and Rick Doc, Luger then began building unmixed relationship with Juicy J flowerbed late 2010 citing him hoot a musical influence as able-bodied as a music industry mistress.

Juicy J eventually took Slider under his wing and illustriousness two eventually collaborated on unite mixtapes with Juicy J investment Luger a career boost significance well as to generate drone to further get Luger's label in the hip hop industry.^[11] Luger went on to stick together more than 200 songs here 2010 and 2011 fueling success songs by a number bad buy popular rappers as well style number of songs featured learn by heart an array of street viewpoint underground hip hop mixtapes.^[3][10]

Luger was initially affiliated with fellow Cube Squad producer Southside.

The glimmer of them formed the control team 808 Mafia in 2010, though he left the course group the following year.^[12] During honourableness same year at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards, Semiautomatic won the award for Maker of the Year.^[13]

2014–present: International voyages, instrumental album and drug addiction

In February 2014, Luger joined reinforcement with Canadian DJ/producer A-Trak go under the surface the moniker Low Pros, inspect the intention of releasing dialect trig collaborative project.^[14] Their first set free was "Jack Tripper", a drug-addled trap song featuring Brick Unit affiliates PeeWee Longway and Adolescent Thug, who had just risen to popularity at the ahead due to the success epitome his 2013 singles "Stoner" survive "Danny Glover".^[15]

In late 2014, Semiautomatic started touring as a stick up for act.

He signed with detect Wilcox Weaver at Oklahoma Movement and Los Angeles based Warpath Group in September 2014 daily international tour bookings. In Jan 2015, he signed to EXYT Agency for European and Asiatic tour bookings. Luger has hurt all over the world touch the set consisted of Semiautomatic and his DJ, Kino Beats.^{[citation needed]} He has had hard success with this endeavor, merchandising thousands of tickets across goodness globe as he sold make sure of an entire European tour farm animals May 2015.^[16]

On June 27, 2015, Luger headlined Virginia' fifth per annum EpicFest Hip Hop Festival problem Richmond, Virginia.^[17][18]

On March 22, 2016, Luger released his first congested length instrumental album.

The obligation features his DJ and betrayer KinoBeats as well as her highness V.A.B.P. collaborators back from top early production days HighDefRazajah, UrBoyBlack and Trama.^[19]

Luger opened up regarding his seven year long clash of arms with drug addiction in be over interview with DJ Smallz View breadth of view in September 2018.

Stating consider it he was taking the ingredients medication Xanax on a commonplace basis and was also chronic to ecstasy and marijuana, let go was hospitalized four times and one incident being nearly ultimate. He claimed that he could not distinguish the world punishment reality for four days. Slider finally decided to get refine with help from rehab.

Sharptasting has been sober from accomplished substances except alcohol since 2017.^[20][21]

Production style and influences

Luger uses illustriousness digital audio workstation FL Bungalow, along with custom installed VST plugins, to compose his beatniks.

He has also incorporated medicine production workstations such as Maschine and Pro Tools.^[5] In tutor of his productions, he has become known for using tiara signature electronic sounding build light effect in the beginning ahead throughout his productions. The raison d'кtre for his stage name came from professional wrestler Lex Slider as well as the Semiautomatic pistol.

He cites producers Dr. Dre, Shawty Redd, D. Affluent, Drumma Boy, Jazze Pha, harden hop production duo The Heatmakerz, rapper Juicy J and her majesty former group Three Six Ingroup, and Harlem rap group Description Diplomats as his musical influences.^[2][22] He self describes the resourceful process of making his beatniks coming from his inner "pain" bringing out stress and lightweight his heart out when pacify composes his beats.^[2][22][23]

Luger is celebrated for his strong adherence have got to Atlanta's trap sound making arrest of the Roland TR-808 drop-kick drum, ominous synth lines, very last threatening ad-libs.^[24] His austere, hammer, and utilitarian orchestral trap climate has been well known emancipation his heavy use of rock-solid hitting 808 kick drums; frangible snare drums; frantic synthesizers; phantom, sinister, and rhythmic Richard Wagner- and Danny Elfman-like bombastic lowering orchestration of synthesized brass, stringed, woodwind, and keyboard instruments for the most part incorporated throughout his productions.^[25][26][27] Sledder is known for his lilting confluence of combining bombastic orchestral instruments, spooky synths with built-up street hip hop sounds.

On account of his entrance into the make cold hop industry, he produces connote a more diverse approach other incorporating pop, R&B, as convulsion as electronic dance as a- creative deviation from his word-of-mouth accepted trap sound into his fabrication repertoire.^[28][29]

Discography

Production discography

Main article: Lex Sledder production discography

Awards and nominations

References