15 New Producers to Watch for in 2014

by Craig Jenkins

With so many producers on the rise, we give you the scoop on the 15 you should be paying attention to.

Producer: HAGLER

From: Toronto

Notable production credits: Drake “Trophies” (2013), Drake “Furthest Thing” (2013), Vince Staples “Blue Suede” (2014)

Did you spaz out to Vince Staples’ “Blue Suede” last week? Did that glorious racket have you looking around your room for inexpensive objects to break? Me too. Get familiar with Toronto’s Marvin Thomas, a.k.a. Hagler Tyrant, then, who lassoed razor sharp synths and trunk-rattling low end into the monster beat that helps smack Staples’ debut Def Jam single outta the park. Hagler’s got more fire too, after co-production with Noah “40” Shebib on Drake’s confessional Nothing Was the Same album cut “Furthest Thing,” and hotter still, the alley-oop on Drake, 40, and Hit-Boy’s mammoth “Trophies.”