Emile Haynie

Emile Haynie broke into the music industry with sample-based rap productions and broadened his reach as a producer and songwriter of large-scale mainstream pop. A native of Buffalo, New York, he lived in the same neighborhood as producer Cochise, a mentor. Haynie built a home studio and dropped out of high school during his freshman year. In 2001, a few years after a move to the Sunnyside neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough, he remixed A.G. & Party Arty's "RUGD" and produced C-Ray Walz & Plain Pat's "Ge ar Abby." During the next several years, Haynie, known simply ...