All of the records I have now say featuring Lex Luger. I have a lot more producing going on than beat making now. As of right now, just working on stuff behind the scenes. I feel like the more I know myself the better my music is. I’ve been able to kind of sit down and just find myself more, which in return helps my music. I’ve been able to work like crazy, and at the same time spend time with my family. Lex: My quarantine has been fucking amazing.

How have you been doing during quarantine, and how has the first few months of 2020 been for you? We spoke to the producer about his decade-long career – his legacy, his hopes to inspire the young Black youth of the current generation, and his brand TMOG. To this day, the Suffolk, Virginia native is still recognized among the most influential and genre-defining producers of the last decade. While following producers would contribute to the evolution of Luger’s initial sound, educated fans of the genre will always recognize Luger as Trap’s most influential founder. Over the next 10 years, Luger would go on to create records and work with many of music’s most influential artists, including Kanye West, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Snoop Dog, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, and more. While other producers dabbled in, or tip-toed around the darkness of the sub-genre, Luger impressively heightened a quick and menacing build-up that would also become his characteristic and unparalleled sound. Spurring and elevating the early careers of rap recording artists like Waka Flocka, and Rick Ross helped put Luger on the map – but his ability to crossover into mainstream music took his beats worldwide. His beats and production were reveled across the industry for his fearless embrace of the darkest elements of Trap, hip hop’s sub-genre. At the height of 2011, Lex Luger was credibly the most desired hip hop producer in mainstream music.

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