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A.B. Eastwood's Ever-Expanding Beat

The autodidact producer spent time learning in Florida, before returning to Nashville with a vision for elevating the entire city.
A.B. Eastwood.

A.B. Eastwood traveled to the star-studded Miami studio scene to learn the fundamentals of production. He returned with a vision for elevating his hometown.

There's a well-established precedent in Nashville that country producers who pile up successes will be treated as kingmakers and gatekeepers, maybe even handed record labels to run and, later, enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Nashville hip-hop producers have faced pretty much the opposite, their options to either grind in obscurity or leave the city and seek bigger opportunities elsewhere (like Syk Sense did). Either way, they've flown beneath the radar in Nashville.

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