Brandon Chase Korn (born March 15, 1991), professionally known as Bkorn, is an American

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. Bkorn is best known for producing for Travis Scott,

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, Chris Brown,

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, and more. In August 2015, Bkorn signed a publishing deal with

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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." 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

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with an Associate's degree in Contemporary Arts, and in 2014 he graduated from

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with a Bachelor's degree in Music Production.

Career

Career beginnings

Bkorn continued producing throughout his college career, using

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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".

Present

Since then, Bkorn has co-produced DJ Khaled's 2014 RIAA Gold certified Hold You Down and the 2015 single "How Many Times"; as well as late rapper

's first album single "On Your Body". In August 2015, Bkorn signed a publishing deal with

. 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

Production discography

Singles produced

2014

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*14 Hold You Down Remix featuring Usher, Rick Ross,

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and

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Zack *Shots Going Off (featuring

)

- Cocaine Riot 4 *12 Thank You (featuring French Montana and Bynoe)

2015

- Cocaine Riot 5 *12 Point Blank (featuring Zack)

- Welcome to JFK *09 Don't Mind Me (featuring MeetSims)

*On Your Body (Remix) featuring Rick Ross & Meet Sims Omelly - On My Time Vol. 1 *04 We Did That (featuring

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) PnB Rock - RNB 3 *02 What U Want

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bkorn 1991 births Living people American hip hop record producers East Coast hip hop musicians Musicians from New Jersey Ramapo College alumni Sony Music Publishing artists People from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey People from Bergen County, New Jersey University of Hartford alumni