Kenneth Blume on the Music Behind ‘Lurker,’ Retiring the Kenny Beats Moniker and What the Film Gets Right About L.A.’s Producer Scene: ‘My First Thought Was “Wait, Is This About My Friends?”’

Introducing Kenneth Blume, the artist formerly known as Kenny Beats.

The powerhouse producer — who defined an entire era of rap crafting albums by Jpegmafia, Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Rico Nasty and more — is entering a new chapter by going back to the name he was born with.

“I named myself Kenny Beats at 15 years old for MySpace — because my name was Kenny and I made beats — and it kind of just stuck,” Blume tells Variety over Zoom from his L.A. studio. “And whenever I get a Grammy nomination as Kenny Beats, there’s times where in my heart I’m just like, ‘But my

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