Hit-Boy wants to add some more hardware to his trophy case and he believes his production résumé is about to earn him another victory.
TMZcaught up with the super producer in West Hollywood over the holiday weekend where he predicted a Grammy win in the Producer of the Year – Non-Classical category.
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He’s competing against Jack Antonoff, Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, Daniel Nigro and Metro Boomin, while seeking his first win in this category after being nominated for this particular award for the first time two years ago.
“I want to win it this time I was nominated like two years ago so I’m tryna get it fo sho,” he said. “You just gotta look at the discog I went crazy on albums really giving people a sound so we’ll see.”
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Hit-Boy also shared that he believes that Musiq Soulchild’s Victims & Villians album should have gotten the Recording Academy’s attention on its own as well.
“I did his whole album this year,” he said. “I think he should’ve been nominated in one of the categories. It was A1. It was high-quality R&B music.”
Hit-Boy was busy in 2023 with a bevy of high profile, high quality projects. Hit produced SURF OR DROWN Vol. 2 for his father Big Hit, Magic for Nas and the aforementioned Musiq Souldchild project. He also worked on singles for Travis Scott, Rapsody, J. Stone, Offset and plenty more.
Hit won HipHopDX‘s 2020 and 2022 Producer of the Year with the latter in large part due to his work behind the boards on Nas’ King’s Disease 3.
Earlier this year, Hit-Boy actually called out some of his Hip Hop producer peers including Metro Boomin, who will compete against him for Producer of the Year honors at the Grammy Awards.
“I’m usually homeboys with producers I get compared to, but on this one I want to say I’m stretched out, extra leg room/ I don’t really know dude, he seem like a cool cat/ But I never once heard Metro Boomin do boom bap/ I never heard a Southside beat without an 808 in it/ HB in drunk-driver mode, I swerve in every lane with it,” he raps over a soulful, piano-laced beat.
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There’s plenty more in store, too, for Hit in 2024 including a joint project with Benny The Butcher called Everybody Can’t Go.
Hit Boy vaguely hinted at their collaboration in February via a Twitter video which showed Benny rapping over a beat in the studio. The following month, the Griselda rapper shared a behind the scenes clip of his own, featuring Hit Boy and Benny listening to a new, untitled track in the background.
