Producer Kenny Beats: All I do is facilitate, I really am a janitor

“It’s more a social thing than it is people knowing how to make the song on the computer. I am friends with the most amazing musicians that can do pop, rap, punk and jazz. All I do is facilitate. I really am a janitor” - one of the most sought-after producers, Kenny Beats tells the NME about his approach to music production. Although rap is his first love, he has produced music for musicians from all over the genre-spectrum - Rico Nasty, Mac Miller, Clairo, Idles, Schoolboy Q, Ed Sheeran. His latest love are the Bristol punks - "I think they’re the most important band in the whole world. Even having been close with them and working on their music, I’m still equally obsessed. Every time they play me a new song, I fall in love with them again. Their song-writing, point of view, just everything about them is what’s missing right now with bands and punk energy. IDLES are checking a box for me that nobody else is checking for me”.