Tastemaker Music LLC is a record production company, owned and operated by songwriter & multi-platinum

RIAA certification

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 selling record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, Chad Dexter, primarily known as Chad Beatz.

Background

Chad Dexter was born Chad Dexter Burnette on Dec. 7th 1983. At age 17, during his high school years, Chad Dexter was introduced to and then soon after mentored by the artist/producer Ryan Leslie

Ryan Leslie

Anthony Ryan Leslie, known professionally as Ryan Leslie, is a Grammy nominated American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, entrepreneur, and singer. Founder of the media company NextSelection Lifestyle Group, Leslie has produced singles for a number of artists in a variety of genres...

 for a few years under Leslie's NextSelection imprint where he honed half of his songwriting and vocal/record production skills. Burnette, along with his father, used to also DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 local parties in the Boston metropolitan area; Burnette constantly wrote and produced full records from his bedroom/basement studio, where he learned and acquired most of his production and musical skills. In October 2003, at age 20, he was discovered by the [then] VP of G-Unit, Sha Money XL

Sha Money XL

-Dream Big Ventures:With Distribution from The Orchard, Sha Money founded a new record label, Dream Big Ventures. Quickly upon its creation, Sha Money signed close Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit affiliates DJ Whoo Kid and Stat Quo, as well as former Young Money artist, Kidd Kidd. Sha is currently trying to...

 during his junior year in college, where he was soon awarded the moniker, Chad Beatz due to his infectious and hard-hitting sound. As a part of the deal, Beatz began doing in-house production for 50 Cent

50 Cent

Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...

, Young Buck

Young Buck

David Darnell Brown , also known as Young Buck, is an American Southern rapper. Buck is a former member of the New York City Hip-Hop group G-Unit, also a former artist of G-Unit Records as of Nov 26, 2011...

, Lloyd Banks

Lloyd Banks

Christopher Charles Lloyd , better known by his stage name Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit. Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, he dropped out of high school in 1998. G-Unit released two albums, Beg for Mercy in 2003 and T.O.S. in 2008...

 and more.

Chad graduated with a Baccalaureate degree in Communications in Jan. 2005.

Tastemaker Music

After a striving stint with G Unit Records, Beatz founded and formed the production company/imprint TasteMaker Music and started producing records under the label name.

Beatz has produced records, singles, demos and remixes for Jim Jones

Jim Jones

James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...

, Ashanti, Robin Thicke

Robin Thicke

Robin Charles Thicke is an Award-winning American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor. Thicke's albums, which he previously released under the moniker Thicke, are noted for their feature of a predominantly R&B sound. Robin Thicke has penned hits for popular artists such as...

, Twista

Twista

Carl Terrell Mitchell , better known by his stage name Twista, is an American rapper. He is known for once holding the title of fastest rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 598 syllables in 55 seconds...

, Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an American hip-hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" ; his in Swahili means "true"...

, Mobb Deep

Mobb Deep

Mobb Deep is an American hip hop duo from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, U.S., that consists of Havoc and Prodigy. The duo is "one of the most critically acclaimed hardcore East Coast hip-hop groups." The group is best known for its dark, hardcore delivery, as exemplified by the single "Shook Ones...

, Olivia (singer)

Olivia (singer)

Olivia Theresa Longott , professionally known as Olivia, is an American R&B singer and rapper.-Early life:Raised in New York City, Longott is of Puerto Rican, and Indian descent....

, Cassie Ventura, Tiffany Evans

Tiffany Evans

Tiffany Evans is an American singer and occasional actress.-2003–2006: The Beginning:Evans was born in Bronx, New York and is the seventh of 10 children born to Carol and Lonnie Evans. Before she achieved success, she and her family were living in their van for years. She got her first break on...

, Teddy Riley (producer), Fergie (singer), Dawn Angeliqué Richard

Dawn Angelique Richard

Dawn Angeliqué Richard is a American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Richard is a former member of the musical group Danity Kane, from 2005 to 2009...

, and is currently producing for and collaborating with Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes

Gym Class Heroes

Gym Class Heroes is an American hip hop rock band from Geneva, New York. They have collaborated with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump on numerous occasions, notably for providing backing vocals on the song "Cupid's Chokehold." Stump also produced the majority of their album The Quilt.The group formed...

, Colin Munroe

Colin Munroe

Colin Munroe is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer originally from North Gower, Ontario, who now resides in Toronto.-Biography:...

, Priscilla Renea

Priscilla Renea

Priscilla Renea Hamilton is an American singer and songwriter. She is signed to Capitol Records, and her debut album, Jukebox, was released on December 1, 2009 but failed to garner success. Her second album is expected to be released sometime in 2011, although no official release details have been...

, Noreaga, Nelly

Nelly

Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. , better known by his stage name Nelly, is an Grammy Award winning American rapper and actor. He has performed with the rap group St. Lunatics since 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999. Under Universal, Nelly began his solo career in 2000 with his debut album...

, Lupe Fiasco

Lupe Fiasco

Wasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco , is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, Lupe is the CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food...

, Tila Tequila, and Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana is an American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on the Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real...

star, Shanica Knowles

Shanica Knowles

Shanica Channell Knowles is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Amber Addison on Hannah Montana.-Acting career:...

plus much more.

Chad Beatz (Chad Dexter) has currently co-wrote and produced the hit single "Girls Up" for The X Factor (UK) super-group Belle Amie  and is also producing on the upcoming Cee-Lo Green & Goodie Mobb album We Sell Drugs Too with Nex Phaze.

Production and songwriting

• Belle Amie  2011 Album TBA
  • "Girls Up" (Single) (Co-Wrote and Produced | Co-wrote by Michaela Shiloh
    Michaela Shiloh
    Michaela Shiloh is an American songwriter and recording artist. Shiloh is signed as an artist to Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins and has worked with Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, and JLo.-Early life:...
    
    )
• 50 Cent
  50 Cent
  Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...
  
    2011 Album TBA
  • "Enforcer" (Co Produced by Chad Beatz | Produced by The Cataracs)
• Travis McCoy Lazarus June 8, 2010
  • "Dont Pretend" ft Colin Munroe
    Colin Munroe
    Colin Munroe is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer originally from North Gower, Ontario, who now resides in Toronto.-Biography:...
    
    
• Cassie Electro Love
  Electro Love
  The forthcoming second studio album by American recording artist Cassie will be released early 2012 by Bad Boy and Interscope Records, as the follow-up to her debut album, Cassie .- Background :...
  
   2010 TBD
  • "My House" (Co-Wrote w/Jason Derulo
    Jason Derulo
    Jason Joel Desrouleaux , better known by his stage name Jason Derülo, is an American singer-songwriter, actor and dancer. After producing records for several artists and writing songs for Cash Money Records, co-founder of the label Birdman, Young Money Entertainment owner Lil Wayne and rapper...
    
      & Channel 7)
• NORE Part ll - Born Again 2010
  • "Club Is A Zoo" (Co-wrote and Produced)
• Twista
  Twista
  Carl Terrell Mitchell , better known by his stage name Twista, is an American rapper. He is known for once holding the title of fastest rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992, being able to pronounce 598 syllables in 55 seconds...
  
   Category F5 2009
  • "Jumpoff" (Co-Wrote & Produced)
  • "One Lucky Girl" (unreleased)
    • The album debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200, selling 45,000 copies.At its second week of release, the album dropped down to #19, selling 19,000 copies. The album has sold 147,220 copies as of December 12, 2009.
• Jim Jones
  Jim Jones
  James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple in...
  
   Harlem's American Gangster
  Harlem's American Gangster
  "Love Me No More" is the lead single from Jim Jones' mixtape/album, Harlem's American Gangster. It features R&B singer Kobe on the hook and was produced by DJ Khalil. There is a remix which features rapper The Game....
  
   & Byrdgang M.O.B. Album 2008
  • "Byrdgang Money"

  • Chart (2008)	Peak position
    U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	19
    U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	3
    U.S. Billboard Top Rap Albums	1
    U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums	1

• Ashanti  - The Declaration
  The Declaration
  The Declaration is the fourth studio album by American R&B/pop singer Ashanti. It was released on June 3, 2008.The album includes the single "The Way That I Love You"...
  
   2008
  • "Things You Make Me Do" ft Robin Thicke
    Robin Thicke
    Robin Charles Thicke is an Award-winning American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor. Thicke's albums, which he previously released under the moniker Thicke, are noted for their feature of a predominantly R&B sound. Robin Thicke has penned hits for popular artists such as...
    
    (Background Vocals,Co-Wrote and Co-Produced)
    • The album debuted at #6 on the Billboard charts, selling 86,000 units in its first week.

      Chart	Providers	Peak position
      U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...	6
      U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...		2

• Talib Kweli
  Talib Kweli
  Talib Kweli Greene , better known as Talib Kweli, is an American hip-hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" ; his in Swahili means "true"...
  
   Eardrum (album)
  Eardrum (album)
  Eardrum is the fourth solo album from American hip hop artist Talib Kweli. The album was his Warner Bros. Records debut with his first album on his own label, Blacksmith Records. It was engineered by Joel Hamilton, Ryan Kennedy, Mike Houge and Dave Dar. Eardrum was released on August 21, 2007 on...
  
   (iTunes) 2007
  • "Hush" ft. Jean Grae
    • Eardrum debuted at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200
      Billboard 200
      The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
      
      , selling about 60,000 copies in its first week, making it Kweli's highest debuting album to date. On its second week it fell to #20 with sales of 25,000 copies, selling a total of 85,500 units.

Chart Positions

Year	Album	Chart positions
		Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums
2007	Eardrum	#2	#1

• Mobb Deep
  Mobb Deep
  Mobb Deep is an American hip hop duo from Queensbridge, Queens, New York, U.S., that consists of Havoc and Prodigy. The duo is "one of the most critically acclaimed hardcore East Coast hip-hop groups." The group is best known for its dark, hardcore delivery, as exemplified by the single "Shook Ones...
  
   Blood Money (Mobb Deep album)
  Blood Money (Mobb Deep album)
  Blood Money is the seventh studio album by hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, released on May 2, 2006. It is the group's first and only album on G-Unit/Interscope Records. It features guest appearances by mainly G-Unit artists 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Nyce, as well as Mary J. Blige and...
  
  
  • "DayDreamin"
    • 875,000 copies sold in the U.S. Now Platinum
      RIAA certification
      In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
      
      
• Lloyd Banks
  Lloyd Banks
  Christopher Charles Lloyd , better known by his stage name Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit. Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, he dropped out of high school in 1998. G-Unit released two albums, Beg for Mercy in 2003 and T.O.S. in 2008...
  
  
  • "If You So Gangsta" Hunger For More (6x Platinum
    RIAA certification
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    )
    • It was released in 2004 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200
      Billboard 200
      The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
      
       charts with 433,000 copies sold in the first week. Banks for the feeling of having the number 1 album in America, with over 450,000 units sold in the first week of The Hunger For More. "That's the kind of debut that veteran artists have," says Banks. "That showed me that following 50's moves and studying the way that he played the game had put me in an incredible position." The album has since sold over 6 million copies worldwide and has been certified platinum
      RIAA certification
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       by the RIAA.

Charts (2004)	Peak position
Dutch Albums Chart	83
French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	37
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	45
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	36
Swiss Albums Chart	65
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	15
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	2
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	1
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	1

• • "Life" ft. Spider Loc Rotten Apple (Lloyd Banks album)
    Rotten Apple (Lloyd Banks album)
    The album received positive reviews. Rolling Stones Evan Serpick gave it 3 out of 5 stars and said that "Eminem, Mobb Deep’s Havoc and a host of G-Unit regulars produce an album’s worth of chunky, ominous beats to fit Banks’ foul mood, but it runs a little thin over sixteen tracks".But XXL gave it...
    
     UK

Charts

Charts (2006)	Peak position
French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	65
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	27
Swiss Albums Chart	36
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	40
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	6
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	3
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	1

• Young Buck
  Young Buck
  David Darnell Brown , also known as Young Buck, is an American Southern rapper. Buck is a former member of the New York City Hip-Hop group G-Unit, also a former artist of G-Unit Records as of Nov 26, 2011...
  
  
  • "Do It Like Me" Straight Outta Cashville
    Straight Outta Cashville
    -Samples:*"Prices On My Head"**"If You Were My Woman" by Latimore*"Bonafide Hustler"**"If Loving You Is Wrong by Bobby Blue Bland*"Bang, Bang"**"Bang, Bang" by Nancy Sinatra*"Thou Shall"**"Smokey Rainclouds" by Andrey Vinogradov...
    
     (3x Platinum
    RIAA certification
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    )
    • The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200
      Billboard 200
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       with about 261,000 copies sold, in the first week, and has since been certified platinum
      RIAA certification
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       by the RIAA.
  • "This Is How We Roll" (unreleased)
  • "Project Niggaz" (mixtape)

• Olivia Behind Closed Doors (album shelved)
  • "In My Bed" ft 50 Cent

Remixes and leaks

• Rihanna (Demo)
  • Bitch Im Special (produced and co-wrote)
• Beyonce 2008
  • "Greenlight "
• Michelle Williams 2008
  • "We Break The Dawn"

Video games

• 50 Cent: Bulletproof Soundtrack
  • "I Run Ny"
  • "I Warned You"
  • All Themeatic, Intro and Outro Music