Hit-Boy
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Chauncey Alexander Hollis Jr. (born May 21, 1987), known professionally as Hit-Boy, is an American record producer and rapper. He first signed with fellow producer Polow da Don in 2007 as in-house production staff for his label Zone 4, and later signed with Kanye West's GOOD Music in 2011 to serve a similar role. His first major production credit, Lil Wayne's 2009 single "Drop the World", peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. The following year, he produced West and Jay-Z's 2011 single "Niggas in Paris", which peaked at number five on the chart and received diamond certification by the
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Chauncey Hollis (born May 21, 1987), better known as Hit-Boy, is an American Grammy-nominated music producer and rapper currently signed to GOOD Music. He is best known for his production on Lil Wayne's 'Drop the World' featuring Eminem, The ASAP Rocky single 'Goldie,' The DJ Khaled single 'I Wish You Would' featuring Kanye West and Rick Ross, Pusha T's 'My God,' Kanye West's 'Christmas in Harlem,' and 'Niggas in Paris,' and 'Clique,' the GOOD Music single featuring Jay Z, Kanye West, and Big Se
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- Hit-Boy
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Chauncey Alexander Hollis Jr.
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Musical artist.origin
- Fontana, California, U.S.
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- 2003–present
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- 1
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- hit-boy.ai
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- 1987-05-21
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- 2003-00-00
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- Chauncey Alexander Hollis Jr.
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Chauncey Alexander Hollis Jr. (born May 21, 1987), known professionally as Hit-Boy, is an American record producer and rapper. He first signed with fellow producer Polow da Don in 2007 as in-house production staff for his label Zone 4, and later signed with Kanye West's GOOD Music in 2011 to serve a similar role. His first major production credit, Lil Wayne's 2009 single "Drop the World", peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. The following year, he produced West and Jay-Z's 2011 single "Niggas in Paris", which peaked at number five on the chart and received diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Throughout the remaining decade, he was credited on the Billboard Hot 100-top 50 singles "Trophies" by Drake, "Clique" by GOOD Music, "Sorry" by Beyoncé, and his first to peak the chart: "Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott, among others. He pursued a career as a recording artist while doing so, and signed with Interscope Records to release his debut studio album, We the Plug (2013) in collaboration with his HS87 collective. He guest appeared alongside Roddy Ricch on Nipsey Hussle's 2019 single "Racks in the Middle", which won Best Rap Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. He has also released the collaborative extended play What You Expect (2021) with Michigan rapper Big Sean, helmed the entirety of the production on six albums by Nas—''King's Disease (2020), King's Disease II (2021), Magic, King's Disease III (2022), Magic 2 and Magic 3 (2023)—as well as the album Burden of Proof (2020) by Benny the Butcher, each of which entered the Billboard'' 200.