Harlem is real serious right now, or should I say Harlem has been serious forever now. The biggest entrepreneur’s come from there, the biggest artists (well not all of them but a good majority), and so does one of the biggest upcoming producers. I shouldn’t even call him “upcoming” because he has produced for the late Big L. The one man that produced (without even knowing it) the beat for one of hip hop’s biggest feuds between. I’m talking about the very much laid back humble and hot man, behind the infamous “Ether”! We all know that story but its time to know this producer for all of his other contributions to hip hop, and they didn’t just start with Ether. I’m talking about none other than Sir Ron Browz. He has also produced for the Late Big L, Ludacris, DMX, Tony Yayo and Lil Kim to name a few, and he is also working with 50 and others. It just would take to long to put the list out there but you get my point. In fact this “little” man has a song in 50’s Get rich or Die Trying movie. I would say he is a big deal, and he certainly does big deals, at least that's what I would say when you are under 30 years of age and are working with those names.

I actually expected him to be a little arrogant when I had the honor to interview him, but he was not arrogant at all. Some people have heard of him but have they really heard all his accomplishments? Do they understand how many hits he has under his belt? Most of the people know that he did Ether but when I read his bio and actually went on a rainy day to Harlem to meet him, I was surprised how cool he was. I know enough up and coming producers that haven’t even had the honor to work with Nas. It’s refreshing to see that there’s still producers like Ron that are in it for the music. Even though it was rainy we had a good conversation, although he is not a “talker.”

Now lets start with the beginning, he signed his first deal at 12 (of course as a rapper) and unfortunately when he was around 16 his label boss got incarcerated and what was left was some equipment. So little Ron started playing around with it and started doing some beats. He sold his first beat to Big L of which I am amazed and want to know how exactly he did it…

“One day I was standing outside in Harlem and Big L walked by. I had just made some beats and I just told him that I had some beats and if he would like to listen to some of them and he said “yes.” He came upstairs and heard the beats. He picked one and that (song became) Ebonics. That's the first beat I sold and I sold it to Big L ” Continued on page 2 »