“I just need to make one edit. Could we start talking while I do it?” Mike Dean asks, lowering himself into a leather office chair in his Los Angeles home studio. He swivels his seat to face a ...

The Weeknd/ Kanye West collaborator isn't as unusual a choice as he might seem to co-produce this high-art project — he's a big enough fan to have reached out himself to initiate their fruitful ...

Famous since the top of the 1990s for bold, old-school, synth-rich productions of hardcore rappers (Scarface), multi-hyphenate hip-hop magnates (Kanye West, Travis Scott) and symphonically scored R&B ...