One of my modern faves...
Participated in Beat Society, competing against well-known acts like Kanye West and Just Blaze. Illmind has created music for underground artists such as Little Brother, Boot Camp Clik, Akrobatik, Supastition, and El Da Sensei. At Sha Money XL's Money Management production company he has produced tracks for 50 Cent, Eminem, Redman, Scarface, LL Cool J, Talib Kweli and others.
In 2005, Illmind collaborated with producer Symbolyc One, releasing an album entitled The Art of OneMind on the BBE imprint. The album features Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah, Little Brother and several other notable artists. The single from the album was "The Broke Song", featuring Strange Fruit Project.
In 2006, Illmind produced tracks from Boot Camp Clik's album The Last Stand and Kenn Starr's Starr Status. He was responsible for "Cardiac" from Sean Price's 2007 album Jesus Price Superstar and produced four tracks on the 2007 Little Brother album, Getback. In 2008 he produced on Absolute Value by Akrobatik.
Illmind released a mixtape project featuring some of the artists he produced for throughout 2008 entitled Blaps, Rhymes & Life. It was followed by the second volume in early 2009, the third volume in the summer, and the fourth volume in December 2009.
He has been featured in multiple publications, such as Scratch ("Top 20 Best Producers"), Ma** Appeal, The Source, XXL, Hiphopgame and Hiphopdx.
In 2008-2010, Illmind taught at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Production:
2003Grand Agent - Fish Outta Water: The Remixes (Soulspazm)
03. "Plans To Blow (Illmind Remix)" (Featuring Reef)
[edit] Akrobatik - Balance (Coup D'État)
05. "Remind My Soul"
2004The Last Poets, Dead Prez & Common - Panthers (Counterflow, Traffic)
05. "Panthers (Illmind Remix)"
Braille - Shades Of Grey (Syntax)
14. "Nobody"
Supastition - The Deadline (Soulspazm)
01. "Deadline (Intro)"
02. "Boombox"
Strange Fruit Project - Soul Travelin' (Octave)
09. "Eternally Yours"
Strange Fruit Project - From Divine (Special Edition) (Spilt Milk, Soul Kontrollaz Productions, Black Son)
15. "Back Drop" (Bonus Track)
Organic Thoughts - The Purest Form (Blaze The World)03. "World Renowned" (Featuring Large Professor)
04. "Hypnotic Travellin'"
05. "No 1 Can Rise Above Me"
06. "Higher Degree" (Featuring Illmind)
07. "Get Fonkee" (Interlude)
09. "Next Levelists"
10. "Soul Movement"
12. "Be Alright" (Featuring Prince Poetry and Uniq)
14. "No Options" (Featuring Chan)
17. "Get It Right" (Featuring Peril-L)
18. "All Too Easy" (Featuring Uniq)
19. "Tell Me Now" (Featuring Andrew Choi)
2005Dave Ghetto - Love Life? (Counterflow)
02. "Day In And Day Out" (Scratches by DJ Kwestion)
07. "The Game"
[edit] The Pacifics & Illmind - The Case (All Natural)
01. "Matches"
02. "Pa**port"
03. "Maps Ronbe" (Featuring Ronde)
04. "The Case"
05. "Watch" (Featuring Russell Pride and Tanya Reed)
06. "Black Book" (Featuring Russell Pride)
07. "Antidote"/"The Case Part 2" (Scratches by Toadstyle)
De Loach - The Life And Times Of Wally Deluxe (Black Son)06. "Wha Cha Gon Do" (Featuring Kay)
07. "Labor of Love" (Featuring Bavu Blakes and Poisoned FETUS)
13. "Writer's Block"
Saigon, Inspectah Deck & Bekay - The Raw(Coalmine)
04. "The Raw (Ill Side)"
[edit] The Pacifics - Sunday's Chicken (All Natural)
03. "Magnificent"
07. "Talk Is Cheap" (Featuring Rakaa Iriscience)
16. "Prayers (God Talk)" (Featuring Denizen Kane) (Electric guitar by Pacoy Anag)
[edit] Hezekiah - Hurry Up & Wait... (Soulspazm)
06. "Children Don't Play"
15. "Before I Go"
[edit] Fel Sweetenberg - Lost Dreams, Wasted Talent (Soulspazm)
09. "Lost Children (Illmind Remix)"
[edit] Muneshine - Opportunity Knocks (Handcuts)
06. "Luke Warm" (Scratches by Muneshine)
07. "Aight, Chill..." (Interlude)
12. "Nine To Five"
14. "Imagine That (Remix)" (Featuring Surreal) (Scratches by ReaLsoN)
Little Brother - The Chittlin Circuit 1.5 (Fastlife)
05. "Nobody Like Me" (Featuring O-Dash and Darien Brockington)
18. "The Beginning" (Featuring YahZarah)
[edit] Raks One - Raks (Verses) The Industry (Wax Reform)
02. "Stand Down"
12. "Over You"
20. "This Is It" (Featuring Ha**aan, Kenn Starr and Supastition)
Edgar Allen Floe - True Links (MCEO)
03. "I For An I"
[edit] Intense - The Bohemian Pimp Project (Defend Music)
01. "Bohemian Renaissance"
04. "That's Life" (Featuring Lady Alma and Mushmouf) (Scratches by DJ Statik)
10. "Need"
11. "The Truth About Me"
17. "A Healthy Obsession"
18. "A New Beginning" (Scratches by DJ Statik)
Supastition - Chain Letters (Soulspazm)
01. "Chain Letters (Intro)"
04. "Soul Control" (Featuring Little Brother)
06. "That Ain't Me"
08. "Special Treatment"
09. "Ain't Goin' Out"
11. "100%"
15. "Blood Brothers" (Featuring Seven)
17. "Soul Control (Solo Version)"
[edit] Supastition - Unreleased Remixes Vol. 1 (Reform School Music)
05. "Adrenile (Illmind Remix)"
Chris Cureton - The Christening (Amped)
02. "Who I Am"
03. "The Getdown" (Featuring Dan Johns, Mastamilli and Supastition)
05. "Self Control"
06. "All I Want"
08. "My Philosophy"
09. "Our Love"
12. "Diamond In The Rough"
15. "Step One"
2006Various Artists - Heavy Rotation (Hiphop Is Music)07. The Procussions & Strange Fruit Project - "Changes"
[edit] Reef The Lost Cauze - Long Live The Cauze (F.U. Pay Me)
21. "Get Lost"
Young Hannibal - Check My Resume (Amped)
02. "I'm That"
15. "Rewind"
Infinito 2017 - The Soul Of Benjamin Banneker In The Age Of The Aquarius (Nephew Of Frank)
03. "A Free Man's Soul"
Kenn Starr - The Starr Report (Halftooth)
15. Supastition - "Ain't Goin' Out (Remix)" (Featuring Kenn Starr)
Kaze - Word On The Street (Mixtape) (Vintage Music Group, Soul Dojo)
11. "Shut Up" (Featuring Amen, Erv Ford, Raks One and Silent Knight)
[edit] El Da Sensei - The Unusual (Fat Beats)
02. "Crowd Pleasa"
03. "Hold On"
Kenn Starr - Starr Status (Halftooth)
02. "Against The Grain"
11. "Inside" (Featuring Wayna)
[edit] Boot Camp Clik - The Last Stand (Duck Down)
02. "Let's Go"
Strange Fruit Project - The Healing (OM Hip Hop)
03. "You"
07. "Get Live" (Featuring Erykah Badu)
11. "Rise" (Featuring Little Brother)
Othello - Alive At The a**embly Line (Miclife)
08. "Silhouette" (Featuring Dminor)
[edit] Little Brother & DJ Drama - Separate But Equal (Heat)
06. "Can't Let Her"
2007Silent Knight - Hunger Strike (Elementality Productions)
03. "Everybody Needs"
[edit] Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar (Duck Down)
04. "Cardiac" (Featuring Buckshot, Ruste Juxx and Flood)
Mr. J. Medeiros - Of Gods And Girls (Miclife, HNGR Music)
05. "Change" (Featuring Rez and Strange Fruit Project)
Skyzoo - Corner Store Cla**ic (Mixtape)
03. "The Paper"
17. "Never Sleep"
[edit] Pumpkinhead - Border Blockerz Pt. 1 (Mixtape) (Red Army)
02. "Best Rappers Out" (Featuring Sean Price)
2Pac - Nu Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2: Evolution: Duets & Remixes (Amaru, Death Row, Koch)
03. "What'z Ya Phone # (Nu Mixx)" (Featuring Candy Hill)
Supastition - Guest Of Honor (Reform School Music)
12. Kenn Starr - "This Is It" (Featuring Emilio Rojas, Ha**ann and Supastition)
Strange Fruit Project - The Lost Documents Volume 1 (OM)
09. "Take It Slow" (Featuring Bavu)
13. "The Grind"
16. "The Definition" (Featuring Chip Fu and Knes)
Little Brother - Getback (ABB)
01. "Sirens"
02. "Can't Win For Losing"
04. "Good Clothes"
09. "That Ain't Love" (Featuring Jozeemo and Darien Brockington)
[edit] Jozeemo - Cry Now L.A.F. Later (Defend Music)
07. "We Don't Wait" (feat. L.O.C.)
Don Cerino - Nothing In Life Is Free (Mixtape)
17. "My Life"
Raks One - For Good (Wax Reform)
07. "This Is It" (Featuring Ha**aan Mackey, Kenn Starr and Supastition)
09. "Over You"
2008Chaundon - Carnage (Hall Of Justus, Defend Music)
12. "Selfish" (Featuring Joe Scudda and Jozeemo)
Akrobatik - Absolute Value (Fat Beats)
01. "A To The K" (Featuring B-Real)
05. "Rain"
09. "Kindred" (Featuring Brenna Gethers and Chuck D)
12. "If We Can't Build" (Featuring Bumpy Knuckles)
[edit] Starrs & Murph - Boxes For Sale (Loose Change Muzik)
07. "Damn"
Skyzoo - Corner Store Cla**ic (The Remixes) (Audioworx)
05. "Never Sleep"
07. "The Paper"
Brooklyn Academy - Bored Of Education (Gold Dust Media)
02. "Raise Ya Hands" (Featuring Jean Grae)
08. "Hide" (Featuring Fresh Jones and Keith Murray)
The Wrist - Recycling Sucks (Otha Ish)
06. "Exit 9"
El Da Sensei - Unheard Of (Next Mill)
09."Thank You"
Supastition - Leave Of Absence EP (Reform School Music)
08. "Thankful" (Featuring Kil Ripkin)
Rapper Big Pooh - Rapper's Delight (Mixtape)
10. "Geez Like Deez" (Featuring Quan)
[edit] Muneshine - Status Symbol (Australian Release) (Grindin)
11. "Mark My Word"
Various Artists - DJ K.O. Presents "Picture This..." (Shaman Work Recordings)
03. "Get 'Em" (Featuring Silent Knight, Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas)
Heltah Skeltah - D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team) (Duck Down)
02. "Everything Is Heltah Skeltah"
07. "So Damn Tuff" (Featuring Buckshot and Ruste Juxx)
Diamond D - The Huge Hefner Chronicles (Babygrande)
04. "Don't Beg"
[edit] Above Ave. - Mission
01. "Like We Do"
04. "Drop The Rhymes" (Featuring J Wess)
10. "Blast Off!!!"
17. "Roof Of All Evil (Wake Up)"
Bambu - Exact Change (Community Kitchen)
07. "Quit"
Fresh Daily - Dub MD & Fresh Daily Presents...Winter Fresh (Mixtape)
18. "Get Over"
23. "New Blood V2 (Featuring Emilio Rojas, Skyzoo and Torae)
Scarface - Emeritus (Rap-A-Lot 4 Life, J. Prince)
06. "It's Not A Game"
07. "Who Are They" (Featuring K-Rino and Slim Thug)
Silent Knight - Holla Burton (The UnMixed Ca**ette) (Elementality Productions)
02. "Regular Guy"
08. "The Wager" (Featuring 8th W1 and Fresh Daily)
16. "Get 'Em" (Featuring East, Emilio Rojas and Skyzoo)
2009Emilio Rojas - Recession Proof (Mixtape)
05. "Young, Fresh & Fly"
10. "Murder" (Featuring Donny Goines and Mela Machinko)
Fresh Daily - The Gorgeous Killer: In Crimes Of Pa**ion (High Water Music)
01. "Wildlife"
13. "Crimes Of Pa**ion"
Rapper Big Pooh - The Delightful Bars (The North American Pie Version) (Hall Of Justus)
10. "Problems" (Featuring Jozeemo)
Various Artists - Rik Cordero presents "Inside A Change" (Soundtrack)
04. A.P. – "All I Seen" (Featuring Illmind)
Skyzoo - The Power Of Words: The Mixtape (Mixtape) (Showoff Records, Jamla)
06. "Freshfest" (Featuring Wale)
14. "Say What You Say" (Featuring Rapper Big Pooh and Naledge)
TBC...this dude has been on the GRIND!!
