Benjamin Saint Fort (born April 23, 1995), known profesionally as Bnyx (, "Benny X", stylized in all caps) is an American record producer and songwriter. He is known for extensively working with Yeat and has also produced for many artists, such as

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and Travis Scott, among others. Bnyx is a part of the

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-founded producer collective

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Early life

Benjamin Saint Fort was born on April 23, 1995, in

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to Haitian immigrant parents. His stage name comes from his nickname, Benny, and the letter X, which he states "represents/stands for “Extreme”. Extreme ..is what I strive for whenever I create music". His older brother, Felix, influenced him to start officially producing music after he heard some of what he had done. His younger brother, Patrick, known professionally as BeautifulMvn, is also a record producer and the two often produce songs together. In 2017, Bnyx started working at

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after having to drop out of college because of financial difficulties, where he saw that Travis Scott had released a remix of " Swang" by

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and decided to make his own remix, which ended up gaining traction after repeatedly tweeting the link to his remix while replying to users on

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Career

In 2021, Bnyx joined the producer collective

. 2021 was also the year he started working with Yeat, with Bnyx having production credits on the ''4L'' mixtape, ''Trendi'' extended play, and the album ''Up 2 Me'', all of which were released in 2021. In 2022, he produced multiple songs on Yeat's September extended play ''Lyfe'', including the Lil Uzi Vert collaboration "

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". In February 2023, he helped produce 8 of the 22 songs on Yeat's third album ''AfterLyfe''. On April 7, 2023,

released the single "

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", in which Bnyx helped produce. On June 30, Bnyx was involved in the production of a song by

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from their third studio album, '' Pink Tape'', titled "

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" (featuring Travis Scott). On July 28, Travis Scott released his fourth studio album, ''

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'', in which Bnyx helped produce the songs "

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" (with Bad Bunny and the Weeknd), " Sirens", and "

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" (featuring Drake), with the former being released as the lead single from the album exactly one week before. On September 22,

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released his third studio album, '' Tec'', in which Bnyx produced both "Yves" and " HVN on earth" (with

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). On November 10, The Kid Laroi released his debut studio album, ''The First Time'', in which "I Thought That I Needed You" and "What Went Wrong???" were produced by him.

Personal life

Bnyx is married to his wife Hannah, whom he met in high school and later reconnected with as an adult. Together they have two daughters.

References

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