Derrick Hutchins, Jr., better known as his stage name Skhye Hutch, is an American hip hop record producer from

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. The two-time Grammy nominee attended Pacific Palisades High School and graduated from the Musicians Institution in 2004. He began working with the production R&B duo The Underdogs. During this time, he met Rob Knox, now a member of

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. During his apprenticeship he met

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, Siege Monstracity and

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Career

In 2007, Skhye signed his first development deal with Mad Heaven as a producer and artist for the group Reign Major. The group released the album ''Growing Pains'', on which all but one song was produced by Skhye. The

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affiliate was introduced to

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-based independent record label

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(TDE) recording artists

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, during the

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mix-tape era. In 2010, Skhye Hutch produced "Space Bars" by

featuring

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& Young Rook. 2012 proved to be a banner year for Skhye as he began to work with TDE artists on solo projects. Hutch produced three hip hop tracks for Ab-Soul's debut album ''Control System''. The highly successful “calm and stoic song” single "ILLuminate". He also produced the album tracks "Empathy" featuring Alori Joh, Javonte and "Beautiful Death" featuring TDE Vice President Punch and

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. Building on his relationships, he landed a single on

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’s 2012 highly anticipated, '' Good Kid M.A.A.D. City'' producing ''Dying of Thirst''. The album was nominated at the

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for five awards including Album of The Year,

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and

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. Linking back with Curtiss King for one of the “most highly anticipated independent releases from the west coast.”, ''Atychiphobia'', Hutch produced "The Bottom" featuring Brooke Taylor. Venturing into co-producing, Skhye Hutch and Tae Beast formulated the music production company WeirrdPeople in 2013. The production duo worked with J-GO on the ''Mr.Goins II'' album producing tracks Underdog, Kush & 2k, Down and Catch Me. In 2014, he rejoined Ab-Soul on the '' These Days...'' album producing "Feeling Us" featuring Jay Rock. The year continued with a feature on iTunes as the best hip hop album of the year, ''Under Pressure'' by

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& Visionary Music Group rapper

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. The song "Growing Pains III" was co-produced by Tae Beast, 6ix, and Skhye Hutch, and was released in October 2014. Reaching out to the

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emerging artist Euro League, Hutch delivered “an atmospheric beat” on the single "Gold Chains In a Dungeon" featuring Doley Barnays off the ''Euro Trip: Continuum'' EP of the New York collective ReeLife. In addition, Skhye produced "Eat Sleep and Die" on

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's album, ''XIV:LIX''. In 2015, he branched out to work with the DMV native

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, where the two collaborated on the tracks "Dirty Scale" and "God Said Trap" with additional production from Gamebrand, which serves as the second official leak from the highly anticipated ''SubTrap LP''. He then produced for Jay Rock's first album in over 4 years,

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. The loopy beat on "Easy Bake" featuring Kendrick Lamar & SZA premiered on

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. Continuing to reach out to emerging artists, Skhye Hutch joined the Inglewood rapper Shawn Chrys on "NO FCKS" released on Timbaland's Imprint label. He also produced ‘''Flicker''’ by Ash Riser.

Production discography

2012

;

- ''

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'' * 10. "ILLuminate" (featuring

) * 13. "Empathy" (featuring Alori Joh and JaVonté) * 15. "Beautiful Death" (featuring

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and Ashtrobot) ; Kendrick Lamar - ''

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'' * 10. " Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" (produced with

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and

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)

2014

; Ab-Soul - '' These Days...'' * 13. "Feelin' Us" (featuring

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and

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) ;

- ''

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'' * 07. "Growing Pains III" (produced with

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and 6ix)

2015

; Jay Rock - ''

'' * 02. " Easy Bake" (featuring Kendrick Lamar and SZA) roduced with The Antydote, ThankGod4Cody, Chris Calor and SmokeyGotBeatz

2016

; Ab-Soul - '' Do What Thou Wilt.'' * 07. "Wifey Vs. WiFi" / / / "P.M.S." (featuring BR3) * 08. "Beat the Case" / / / "Straight Crooked" (featuring

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) roduced with Tae Beast

References

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