Wyshmaster Explained

Adam Cherrington, born April 20, 1979, better known as "Wyshmaster", is an American, Grammy Award nominated, multi-platinum selling,^{[1] [2] [3]} record producer of hip-hop, contemporary R&B, and pop music.^{[4] [5] [6]} He has produced for games, commercials, television, movies, internet and radio; working with prominent names such as Nelly, T-Pain, Pitbull, Tech N9ne, St. Lunatics, Chingy, The Lonely Island, Field Mob, B.o.B and more.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010 for the multi-platinum selling single, "I'm on a Boat" featuring Lonely Island and T-Pain.^{[11] [12]}

Career

Raised in the Chicago, Illinois, area, Wyshmaster started his career producing pop hip-hop tracks for Chicago's Midway Games video games such as NARC and .^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17]} In St. Louis he worked with Nelly, St. Lunatics, Chingy, and other local artists. He produced Brass Knuckles by Nelly ^[18] and "Superhero" by Chingy.^[18]

When SNL played "I'm on a Boat" it went viral, and Wyshmaster moved to Los Angeles.^{[19] [20]} While in Los Angeles, he received a Grammy Award nomination,^[21] and worked with various American Idol finalists and songwriters, and was signed to Peermusic.^[22]

From 2011 until 2018, Wyshmaster teamed up with extreme Institute by Nelly^[23] and began dividing his time between producing and investing in the next generation of artists.^{[24] [25]} He designed courses such as Beatology and served as a Campus Director in St. Louis, Missouri.^{[26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]}

Late 2018, Wyshmaster relocated to Nashville, Tennessee constructing a novel breakthrough program solely surrounding music production.^[33] As one of the pioneers of leasing and selling music online, Wysh designed a program for students to learn the art of creating, leasing and selling their music, as well as how to network and earn a living as a music professional. Wyshmaster maintains his original focus for every artist online.^{[34] [35] [36]}

Production discography

2004

• "NBA Ballers", Midway Games, "Scored 10 custom background music sequences"^{[37] [38]}
• "Bolo", "I Ride", "Murder Dog Presents South Carolina", "Blood Rush Music" ^[39]

2005

• "Smoke(6)", "Come See Me", "Ludacris Presents Disturbing Tha Peace", "Def Jam Recordings" ^[40]
• "N.A.R.C.", Midway Games^[41]
• "L.A. Rush", Midway Games^[42]

2006

• "NBA Ballers Phenom" Midway Games
• "Twista featuring Kanjia, Pitbull and E40", "Talk Hard", The Core DJ's Compilation", "The Core DJ's"

2007

• "Chingy featuring Bobby Valentino", "Remember When", "Hate it or Love it", "Def Jam Recordings"^[43]

2008

• "Everybody Move", "Get the F... Outta Here", "The Waitress"', "Pillow Talkin", and "Enjoy", for Killer, 2008.
• "I See It", "Running Away", "J's On My Feet", "Colors", "Shotaz", "The Green Mile", and "Wipe That Sweat", for Feature Presentation, a Kutt Calhoun album, 2008.
• "U Ain't Him" and "Chill", for Brass Knuckles, 2008, a pop-rap crossover album from Nelly.^[44]

2009

• "Rain", from Jeremy Greene featuring Bossman. Originally posted on MySpace, when the site generated an unprecedented 27 million hits, MySpace Records offered Jeremy a recording contract and "Rain" is now an official single featuring Pitbull.^[45]
• "I'm on a Boat", from the Lonely Island album Incredibad, also seen as a digital short on Saturday Night Live.^[46] The song showed up on charts around the world ^[47] and was the most popular YouTube video in February 2009.^[48] Later, it became an iPhone application.^[49]
• "Sickology 101" and "In the Air", for Tech N9ne Collabos: Sickology 101 (CD, Album) 2009, a collaboration album from Tech N9ne.^[50]

2010

• "Ack-A-Donkey", "In my Dreams", "Alive", "Tonight" for "Krizz Kaliko", "Shock Treatment", a "Strange Music" album 2010.
• "Eskimo", Ridin on 4's" for "Smoke Dogg",a "State II State" album 2010.

2011

• "Promiseland","So Lonely" and "Eenie Meanie Miny Ho" (Deluxe Edition) for All 6's and 7's, a Tech N9ne album, 2011.

2012

• "Everywhere We Go", "Edison Chen featuring MC Chef & MC Yan", "3 Corner", "East Asia Music".

2013

• "That Good Love", "Marissa Jack", K-Mart National Valentine's Day Commercial, 2013.^[51]
• "Stevie Stone featuring Brotha Lynch Hung", "Hush", "2 Birds 1 Stone", "Strange Music"^[52]

2019

• "Wided" - Lil Primo ft. yDEEPS, studio engineered by black808

Notes and References

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