Khayree Shaheed is a music producer, from

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. He is best known for producing for Bay Area rappers such as

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, and Young Lay.

Career

He produced most of Young Lay's album '' Black 'N Dangerous'' and Mac Mall's ''

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'', as well as many others. Some of the best known songs he produced include Young Lay's "All About My Fetti", which was used for the soundtrack to the movie ''

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'', and also Mac Mall's "Ghetto Theme", whose music video was directed by

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. His production style is similar to the

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that was commonly found in

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in the mid 1990s, but usually without the use of samples. Khayree Produced Ray Luv's album "Forever Hustlin" and the album was released in 1995 by

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through the Bay Area label Young Black Brotha, was his major label debut it reached #21 on the ''Billboard'' Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. Ray Luv's single "Last Nite" was popular among street Gangsta rap fans. Khayree released a solo album in 1997 titled ''The Blackalation (The World Is Yours)''. Some of his earliest productions were the tracks "Hooked" and "It's a Party" off of

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's 1990 album ''

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''. As of January 2010, he had reconnected with longtime Young Black Brotha Records labelmate Mac Mall, with whom he was in the studio working on new crestside material for a new album which would be off Mall's new label Thizz Or Die.

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