Frederick Taylor

Frederick Toxic Taylor/Toxic Production BIO Toxic (Toxic Productions) has an impressive resume, crafting hits for Cardi B, Offset, Keyshia Cole, Monica, Twista, Charlie Wilson, Jamie Fox, Lil' Kim, Faith Evans, T - Pain, to name a few. "I have been fortunate to work with so many great artists and it challenges me to raise the bar. And I love a good challenge" Toxic stated. Toxic embraced Hip-Hop while listening to artists like LL Cool J, Rakim, and N.W.A. Battle rapping became his creative outlet at the age of 14, during that time he met his friend and long time collaborator Twista. In 1994, he joined up with the group Ill-State Assassins, and from that experience his group 3 in the Chamba, was established. It was then he made the transition from rapper to producer having cut his first tracks with 3 in the Chamba under the guidance of DJ Riot One & Chain Saw. From that moment on he became addicted to the rush of having artists perform on his tracks, "I did my first beat and got a response from it… being in a studio, working on a beat from beginning to end, and seeing somebody put something down on it is really when I got the juice for it," remembers Toxic. Afterward, Toxic stared engineering and working with Chicago break out rapper Twista on his albums. These collaborations would be instrumental in the development of Toxic's sound, he notes, "Twista was the final ingredient to the stew… He gave me the full spectrum of everything. Twista brings the best out of me on the music side." Toxic, is now a multi-platinum, Grammy winning music producer. Toxic, along with Twista, started an independent company in 1998 entitled Legit Ballin Records, which collectively sold over 500,000 records. Toxic played the roll as CEO and Head of Administrations. Legit Ballin Records was proclaimed one of the top 5 independent labels from 1999 - 2002. In 2004, Toxic produced Twista's Kamikaze record which sold 2 million records worldwide and went platinum in just 4 weeks. The record reached #1 on Billboard for 3 consecutive weeks. Shortly after in 2005, Toxic produced the hit single Hope featuring Twista and Faith Evans which landed on the Coach Carter film soundtrack starring Samuel L. Jackson. The single reached top 10 on Billboard charts. Toxic went on to produce hits on all 5 records for Keyshia Cole. 'Trust', a record he produced with Keyshia Cole featuring Monica, was the #1 most added song on the radio in it's first 2 weeks. The smash hit went on to reach #5 on Billboard's R&B/Urban charts top 100, and Toxic won an ASCAP Award in 2010 for his production on the song. Toxic went on to produce the single "Hopeful" for Simon Cowell's artist Bars and Melody in 2015 which has over 130 million hits on You tube. Toxic is the founder and driving force behind TOXIC PRODUCTIONS. Toxic and team landed the biggest success to date by co-producing the 9x platinum single "Bodak Yellow" for Cardi B.