Omen (music producer)

Omen
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Background information
Birth name	Sidney Brown
Also known as	Omen
Born	August 21, 1976 (1976-08-21) (age 35)
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	J. Cole, Drake, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Fabolous
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 J. Cole, Drake, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Fabolous, Vado, Memphis Bleek, Redman, Keith Murray, 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.

Early life and career

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

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

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

• 2011
  • "Applause" by Omen and the Elaborate Musik Orchestra featuring XV, 4IZE, Ashton Travis and Jigsaw Tha Puzzla ^[7]
  • "Get Back" by Diggy Simmons, Ashton Travis, and Mike Jaggerr from Black Hero Theme Musik
  • "Negro Spiritual" by Mickey Factz, Ashton Travis, Nickelus F, Luckie Day, and The C3 Choir from Black Hero Theme Musik
  • "All For Me" by XV, Vado, Cyhi Da Prynce, and Erin Christine from Zero Heroes

• 2010
  • "Polo" remix by Vado featuring Young Dro
  • "Polo" by Vado from Slime Flu
  • "I'm Single" by Lil Wayne from I'm Not A Human Being
  • "Shut It Down" by Drake featuring The-Dream from Thank Me Later

• 2009
  • "I'm Single" by Lil Wayne from No Ceilings

• 2008
  • "Overdose On Life" featuring Drake, Mickey Factz, and Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes

• 2007
  • "Soopaman Luva 6" by Redman featuring Hurricane G from Red Gone Wild

• 2006
  • "Tell It Like It Is" by Ludacris from Release Therapy

• 2003
  • "Why Wouldn't I" and "Change Your or Change Me" by Fabolous from Street Dreams
  • "Swagger Back" by Keith Murray from He's Keith Murray

• 2001
  • "One Day" by Fabolous from Ghetto Fabolous

• 2000
  • "No 1 Can Compare" by Amil from All Money Is Legal

• 1999
  • "Everybody" by Memphis Bleak from Coming of Age

Notes

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/news/new-drake-song-titled-shut-it-down-leaks-1004077339.story#/news/new-drake-song-titled-shut-it-down-leaks-1004077339.story 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/applause-feat.-xv-4ize-ashton/id446630475?uo=4

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