WLPWR
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| Origin | Columbia, South Carolina, United States |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | SupaHotBeats |
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| Website | SupaHotBeats.net |
William Washington, known professionally as WLPWR (pronounced Willpower and referred to herein as "Will") is a musician and music producer who is the founder of SupaHotBeats a record label and production studio based out of Atlanta founded by Washington in 2002.
Will began producing music as early as 1997 in while living in Columbia, SC. It was in the Carolinas that WLPWR first began to make a name for himself while producing for nearly every urban artist on the local independent scene. While working in a compound of music producers, and audio engineers, WLPWR worked with producer K-Def who mentored Will and taught him how to produce hip hop on Logic Pro. In an era before the internet, he was selling music out of his trunk. In 2001 WLPWR worked as a producer for Sylvia Robinson. In these early years of his career he met Yelawolf in the lobby of Sugar Hill Records, and they formed an instant connection. During this time, his label SupaHotBeats was established in Columbia,SC. Through this label, Will started The Starving Artist Showcase, a music contest which later laid the foundation for his television show The Independent Music Review. The show aired on WACH Fox 57 in Columbia. In 2005 he made the decision to move his business to Atlanta, GA where the music industry was more accessible. In 2007, Will reconnected with Yelawolf to work on his studio album Fearin' and Loathin' in Smalltown, U.S.A. for Columbia Records.
In 2009 Will produced Yelawolfs Mixtape Trunk Muzik which was later re-released by Interscope Records as Trunk Muzik 0-60Trunk Muzik launched Will further into his career as a Hip Hop Producer. Though he continued to work with Yelawolf on his debut for Shady Records, Will and Yelawolf never became exclusive to each other in terms of their work, despite their chemistry.
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