Kane Beatz

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With a resume already sporting hip hop heavyweights Lil’ Wayne and Trick Daddy, a producer could rightfully feel accomplished, but for 20-year-old Daniel “Kane Beatz” Johnson, it’s just the beginning. “I wanna do everything!” exclaims the normally temperate producer. “In 2008, I’m trying to go on some crazy, crazy shit so niggas know I can cut a record with Lil’ Wayne and then cut a record with Fergie.” That uninhibited ambition might seem far-fetched from any other young buck, but from Kane seems credible. The Orlando, Florida, native started out producing for his groups Blackout and Squadron, before registering with the music-networking site Soundclick.com. Within months he was the number one producer on Soundclick, bringing in two to three stacks each month from selling beats on the site. It wasn’t long after that Atlantic Records Senior VP of A&R Mike Caren, who supposedly frequented Soundclick regularly for new talent, gave Kane his first major label placement for Trick Daddy’s “Tuck Ya Ice” on Back By Thug Demand. From there, the placements started rolling in with Cash Money requesting him, as well as 2006’s breakout artist Chamillionaire, who had Kane do a number of tracks on The Ultimate Victory, including the lead single “Evening News.” Kane, who has no formal musical training, initially drew inspiration from the church, where he would go and hear the heavy organs and dense choirs. “When I first started, that’s what my music sounded like. That grit and that realness,” says Kane. As he grew up though, he was influenced by the secular side in the form of Cash Money’s Mannie Fresh and homestate hero, Uncle Luke. “I did a record on Trick’s album called ‘Lights Off’ and everyone compared it to old Uncle Luke and that fast party Miami sound,” explains Kane. “I’m just a product of my environment,” Now residing in Atlanta which he calls the “mecca of black music,” and claims “there’s a lot more money,” Kane is looking to work up to where his childhood hero Mannie Fresh, and new favorites Polow Da Don and Timbaland, are. He’s setting up his own production company, working on breaking into pop and R&B and evolving his sound. “As a producer these days, you gotta keep reinventing yourself. If you can’t, [people] will get bored. And that’s what I’m trying to do.”