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The Clutch was an American collective of songwriters and record producers based in
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, composed of Candice Clotiel "Gg" Nelson, Ezekiel "Zeke" Lewis, Patrick Michael "J. Que" Smith, Balewa Muhammad and
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. They were on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100-top 40 singles
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's " Like a Boy",
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's " One Less Lonely Girl". A combination of two or more of the five writers on a song is considered a track "written by the Clutch" as they rarely worked as a complete fivesome. The Clutch wrote songs themselves, but also did so in tandem with fellow commercially successful producers—including Calvo Da Gr8, Bigg D,
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, Timbaland, Danja,
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—to create several other
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s. In June 2023, Clutch member Ezekiel Lewis was named President of
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. Prior, Lewis had been Vice President and head of A&R at
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from 2011 to 2017 and Vice President of A&R at Epic since 2017.


Discography


Singles produced

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s Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clutch, The African-American record producers Record producers from Georgia (U.S. state) African-American songwriters Writers from Atlanta Record production teams American songwriting teams