Lex Luger (musician)
| Lex Luger | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lexus Arnel Lewis |
| Born |
March 6, 1991 Suffolk, Virginia, United States |
| Origin | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop, southern hip hop, trap, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer |
| Instruments | FL Studio, Maschine MK2, Pro Tools |
| Years active | 2008−present |
| Labels | 1017 Brick Squad, Fool's Gold, Warpath Group, TMOG |
| Associated acts | V.A.B.P., Low Pros, 808 Mafia, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame, OJ da Juiceman, 2 Chainz, Pusha T, Big Sean, Rick Ross, Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, Soulja Boy |
Lexus Arnel Lewis (born March 6, 1991), professionally known as Lex Luger, is an American record producer from Suffolk, Virginia currently based in Atlanta. His stage name is inspired by the famous WWF professional wrestler Lex Luger. He co-founded the American hip hop production team 808 Mafia with Southside. Luger is also a member of the hip hop production duo Low Pros with A-Trak and the VABP (Virginia Boyz Productionz), a hip hop group that he founded in high school.
Growing up Luger played percussion for his church and drummed in church bands. His first introduction to music was playing drums for a number of bands at his local church where he learned about beats, measures, BPMS and bars using a DJ set where he took instrumentals and mixed them with acapellas. He then moved on to making music on the PlayStation game MTV Music Generator 3, where he started working with turntables. When Luger eventually saved enough money for an Akai MPC 2500 and established the VABP (Virginia Boyz Productionz) production crew with his high school friends, Luger began to try his hand at making high quality industry hip hop beats. After purchasing an MPC 2000 from his uncle, his friend and now collaborator Urboyblack brought Luger an unlicensed copy of FL Studio, a piece of music production software which he uses to this day. He has also incorporated music production workstations such as Maschine and Pro Tools.
Initially spending long days experimenting with Fruity Loops and working every day after school and all day every weekend wasn’t enough to jumpstart Luger's production career. He dropped out of King's Fork High School after the 10th grade to further hone his music production talents when he realized that he was able to produce song length instrumentals at a fast pace. Putting hours into honing his craft, Luger began to dramatically increase his musical output after he found that he could knock out at least 10 beats a day. He then started hearing about independent music artists gaining exposure through MySpace and started posting music on that website. Around late 2008, he began cold-emailing his beats to various rappers and posting instrumentals on his Myspace page, hoping to gain further exposure in the hip hop industry. In 2009, a then unknown rapper by the name of Waka Flocka Flame began e-mailing him back. The two later built a relationship on MySpace when Luger began sending Waka beats once every few days.
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