“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”.

"Denzel Curry is one of the rawest, hardest-hitting rappers around at the moment and Kenny Beats is one of the rawest, hardest-hitting producers" - Brooklyn Vegan writes about their collaborative album. "Denzel’s bars on 'Unlocked' actually go harder than the ones on the two great albums he released in the past two years, and Kenny’s production is the perfect backdrop for Denzel’s rage" BV adds, underlining the general atmosphere on this album - "both also sound like they had a lot of fun with this project".

Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats released a new short film, where they argue over who leaked their collab album. They have to go into a video-game and rescue their files at various levels of the game, with some interesting thoughts on music-files theft on the way. While they play, there is some music from the pair too - good beats and plenty of funny lines.