William Michael Coleman (born July 8, 1992), professionally known as Mike Zombie, is an American record producer and rapper from

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. Since 2012, Coleman has been an in-house producer for

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's label

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. His biggest production for the label is "

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" in 2013. His other major production credit is " They Don't Love You No More" by

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, released a year later.

Career

He is best known for the production of Drake's single "

". He sampled a track titled "Ambessence piano & drones 1" by Bruno Sanfilippo & Mathias Grassow for the song. "Started from the Bottom" was the winner of "Track of the Year" at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. The song was played during

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' "LeBron Face" Sprite commercial", video game

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, and video game Assassin's Creed 4. The song was also nominated for "Best Rap Song" at The 56th Annual Grammy Awards. In July 2013, BET named him one of the "top 10 young producers to watch out for". In October 2013, ''

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'' named him one of the "25 new producers to watch for". He previously collaborated with battle rapper

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and Hollow played an important part putting Drake in contact with Mike Zombie. Zombie released his first mixtape, ''The End of the Beginning'', on December 22, 2013. Recently he produced

's song " They Don't Love You No More" featuring

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and

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. In the summer of 2014 he released his first music video from "The End of the Beginning" "616" on MTV Jams. On January 27, 2015 Zombie released a new project called "Rebel Without a Cause". In 2016, he dropped a few singles and two projects: "Humble Genius" (July 1, 2016) and a collaborate album with Benzi Ayo "Ea$tside Story" (October 1, 2016). In 2019, Zombie produced a song for The Game titled "A.I. With The Braids" featuring

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Discography

Mixtapes

* ''The End of the Beginning'' (2013) * ''Rebel Without a Cause'' (2015) * ''Humble Genius'' (2016) * ''Eastside Stories'' (with Benzi Ayo) (2016) * ''20GREATEEN'' (2018) * ''The Silver Tape'' (2019)

Guest appearances

Production discography

References

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