ILL Tone Beats

Buffalo, New York-based producer ILL Tone Beats crafts gritty, soulful boom-bap instrumentals. He's frequently collaborated with other figures from the city's thriving rap scene, including Elcamino, Jae Skeese, and Griselda affiliates such as Conway the Machine and Benny the Butcher. He produced a full LP by Benny's Black Soprano Family collective, The Outcome, in 2025. ILL Tone Beats first surfaced around 2022, when he produced Elcamino and Chase Fetti's collaborative EP Bethlehem. He continued working extensively with Elcamino, producing his 2023 release Here You Go, and ma...