When a producer helps to create a hit based on a certain type of sound for an artist, it’s no surprise that labels would come looking to that producer to give their artist the same sound hoping for a hit. Carvin & Ivan get the same since they’ve...
Last year when we unveiled our list of the Future Superstars of R&B, Tinashe was right in the center of things. She’s progressed even further since then, releasing her critically acclaimed “Reverie” mixtape with the smash single...
The journey as a new artist is not an easy one. You see millions of mixtapes released every day with intentions of creating a buzz and developing a fanbase, but most of the time it’s to no avail. However, there are rare instances where it does work such as the...
Perhaps some of Carvin & Ivan’s finest work over the course of their career was the work they did on Faith Evans’ “First Lady” album in 2005. Producing half of the album, including the first single “Again”, they helped Faith...
We always felt that “Womanopoly” from Musiq Soulchild’s third album “Soultar” should have been a single. Well, it turns out the producers of the song “Carvin & Ivan” tended to agree and actually pushed for it at the time....
As we spend the week highlighting the legendary production career of Carvin & Ivan, we begin with the album track “143” they created for Musiq Soulchild’s debut album “Aijuswanaseing”. Listen to them talk about how it all came...
