“No one f--king cares if you did it all by yourself. If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I’d rather make the best music ever.” - FrankDukes Read his full cover story here:
Helping artists achieve something singular -- even if it means taking a back seat or calling in extra help -- has helped turn Dukes into one of pop and hip-hop’s most in-demand collaborators. In the past five years, he has amassed writing or producing credits on a staggering 44 Hot 100 entries, ranging from shimmering dance-pop to throbbing hip-hop . The 35-year-old describes his role in the studio, where he contributes instrumentation as well as melody and lyrics, as that of a co-navigator.
Sometimes that means taking on the title of executive producer, hunkering down with an artist and “creating our own little world,” as he did with Cabello, or with, EP. Sometimes it means coming aboard as a technical specialist, like when Lorde recruited Dukes to provide drum sounds and other production ideas on six tracks from 2017’sAnd sometimes, he’s not even in the room.
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