Omen (music producer)

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Omen
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Background information
Birth name Sidney Brown
Also known as Omen
Born (1976-08-21) August 21, 1976 (age 36)
Origin Harlem, New York, United States
Genres Hip-Hop, R&B
Occupations Record producer
Instruments Keyboard, drum machine, sampler
Years active 1999–present
Labels Elaborate Musik Recordings / Weerai Music Company, LLC
Associated acts Drake, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Fabolous, J. Cole
Website Official MySpace

Sidney Brown (born August 21, 1976), better known as Omen is a Grammy winning American music producer from Harlem. He has produced for artists such as Drake, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Fabolous, Vado, Memphis Bleek, Redman, Keith Murray, Immortal Technique, Jellestone, Paypa, and Amil. Omen's production facility is currently housed in Harlem recording studio Stadium Red, recent home of producer Just Blaze.[1][2]

With recent successes of Drake, Lil Wayne, Vado (Interscope), Erin Christine (featured on z100) and XV (Warner Bros.) Omen entered into a label services deal with Weerai Music Company to create Elaborate Musik Recordings. The first single, "Applause" features guest appearances from XV, 4IZE, Ashton Travis and Jigsaw the Puzzla.

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Early life and career [edit]

Omen's production was featured on early Roc-A-Fella releases by Memphis Bleek and Amil. Omen produced "Everybody" from Memphis Bleek's debut album Coming of Age and "No 1 Can Compare" from Amil's debut album All Money Is Legal.

Further placements include "Change Your or Change Me" and "Why Wouldn't I" from Fabolous's Street Dreams, "Taste This" from Mýa's Mood Ring, and "Swagga Back" from Keith Murray's Def Jam debut He's Keith Murray.

Omen also provided the entire score for the Roc-A-Fella/Universal Pictures release Paper Soldiers in 2002.

Commercial breakthrough and Grammy award [edit]

In 2006 Omen produced "Tell It Like It Is" for Ludacris which appeared as the b-side to the single "Money Maker." "Tell It Like It Is" was featured on Ludacris's double album Release Therapy, which won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, thus earning Omen his first Grammy award and certificate.

Omen was also featured on Redman's Red Gone Wild album, producing the song "Soopaman Luva 6" which featured Hurricane G.

Thank Me Later [edit]

Through Omen’s collaborations with Canadian music producer Noah "40" Shebib, he was introduced to Drake who recorded the song "Shut It Down" [3] featuring The-Dream, for his highly anticipated album Thank Me Later.

Further co-production with Noah "40" Shebib led Omen to co-produce Lil Wayne’s "I'm Single" featured on No Ceilings. The video for "I'm Single" premiered on MTV2 on April 18th, 2010.[4] "I'm Single" was also released on iTunes on May 11th, 2010.[5] I'm Single was officially released on Lil Wayne's I'm Not A Human Being album, which reached #1 on the Billboard 200.[6]

Production credits [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2010/03/22/22152648.aspx AllHipHop. Accessed on June 2nd, 2010
  2. ^ http://blog.istandardproducers.com/tag/westward-productions Istandard Producers Blog. Accessed on February 4th, 2010
  3. ^ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958879/new-drake-song-titled-shut-it-down-leaks AllHipHop. Accessed on March 22nd, 2010
  4. ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1637274/20100416/lil_wayne.jhtml MTV. Accessed on April 18th, 2010
  5. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/im-single-single/id370580324 iTunes. Accessed May 11th, 2010
  6. ^ http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/10/20/lil-wayne-no-1-billboard-200/ Accessed October 22nd, 2010
  7. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/circus-act-single/id485653416?uo=4
  8. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/jealous-girls-single/id513007472?uo=4
  9. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/applause-feat.-xv-4ize-ashton/id446630475?uo=4
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