Bkorn

Brandon Chase Korn (born March 15, 1991), professionally known as Bkorn, is an American record producer. Bkorn is best known for producing for Travis Scott, DJ Khaled, Nav, PnB Rock, Chris Brown, Lil Kim, Chinx, Lil Wayne, and more. In August 2015, Bkorn signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.[2]

Bkorn
Birth nameBrandon Chase Korn
Also known asBkorn
Born (1991-03-15) March 15, 1991
OriginWoodcliff Lake, New Jersey, United States
Genres
Occupation(s)
Instrument(s)
Years active2009-present
LabelsSony ATV[1]

Early life

Bkorn has been playing and writing music since he was 11 years old. As an avid rock and metal music fan, he began play the drums in 5th grade for band class, then self-taught himself how to play both guitar and bass."[3] In 2009, Bkorn started to produce primarily hip hop and R&B music using the Apple software application GarageBand typically producing Electronic dance music and cover versions of other popular songs. From there, he became more serious about a career in music production. In 2011, Bkorn graduated from University of Hartford with an Associate's degree in Contemporary Arts, and in 2014 he graduated from Ramapo College with a Bachelor's degree in Music Production.[4]

Career

Career beginnings

Bkorn continued producing throughout his college career, using Logic Pro to make beats. In 2012, Bkorn interned at Puff Daddy's studio, Daddy's House Recording Studio. In 2013, Bkorn landed his first placement on DJ Khaled's 7th studio album Suffering from Success. The song was "I'm Still".[4]

Present

Since then, Bkorn has co-produced DJ Khaled's 2014 RIAA Gold certified Hold You Down[5] and the 2015 single "How Many Times"; as well as late rapper Chinx's first album single "On Your Body". In August 2015, Bkorn signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Bkorn has also stated that he is interested in exploring pop and dance-pop music genres as well. More recently he worked on song Stargazing in the critically acclaimed album Astroworld by Travis Scott[6][7]

Production discography

Singles produced
Year Title Chart positions Album
US
 US R&B/HH
 US Rap
2013 "I'm Still"
(DJ Khaled featuring Chris Brown, Wale, Wiz Khalifa and Ace Hood)		 —54— Suffering from Success
2014 "Hold You Down"
(DJ Khaled featuring Chris Brown, Future, August Alsina and Jeremih) 		3910— I Changed a Lot
2015 "How Many Times"
(DJ Khaled featuring Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Big Sean) 		681713 I Changed a Lot
"On Your Body"
(Chinx featuring MeetSims)		 ——— Welcome to JFK
2016 "Stamina"
(Moosh and Twist featuring Lil Uzi Vert) 		——— Growing Pains
2017 "Took Us a Break"
(Lil Kim) 		——— Promotional Single
2019 "Control"
Vory 		——— Lucky Me
"Nasty One"
Lil Kim 		--- -/-
"Stargazing"
Travis Scott 		101710 Astroworld
"M.I.A."
Mitch (Singer) 		--- Girl Power
"Deez Streets"
PNB Rock 		--- Trapstar turned Popstar
2020 "Spent it"
Nav		 ——— Good Intentions

[8] [4]

2014

DJ Khaled - I Changed a Lot

Zack

Chinx - Cocaine Riot 4

2015

Chinx - Cocaine Riot 5

  • 12 Point Blank (featuring Zack) [10]

Chinx - Welcome to JFK

  • 09 Don't Mind Me (featuring MeetSims)

Chinx

Omelly - On My Time Vol. 1

PnB Rock - RNB 3

  • 02 What U Want

References
  1. "Sony/ATV on Twitter". Twitter.com.
  2. "Instagram photo by Sony/ATV • Sep 1, 2015 at 10:29pm UTC". Instagram.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.
  3. "Producers Of DJ Khaled's 'Hold You Down' Talk Creating The Record & More (Interview)". Hiphopsince1987.com. 9 September 2014.
  4. "Brandon Korn - Success Stories". Ramapo.edu.
  6. Astroworld (CD liner notes). Travis Scott. Epic Records. 2018. 88362-5.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. "BMI | Repertoire Search". BMI. Select "TITLE", type "Song" in the search engine, and click "Search". Archived from the original on April 6, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  8. "Bkorn Talks Producing Lil Kim's 'Took Us A Break', How Beef Affects Producers & More". Istandardproducers.com. November 6, 2017.
  9. "bkorn on Twitter". Twitter.com.
  10. "Chinx - CR5". Datpiff.com.
  11. "On Your Body (Remix) [feat. Rick Ross, Meet Sims] - Single by Chinx on Apple Music". Itunes.apple.com. 24 August 2015.
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