Nikolas Papamitrou, better known

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ously as Papamitrou or by the stage name Nick Papz, is a music producer from Massachusetts. Papamitrou is currently the first signed producer to

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's record label: Dreamchasers.

Career

Nikolas Papamitrou aka Nick Papz, graduated

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with a BS degree in Communications Technology. He started
YouTube channel
at the age of sixteen producing "Meek Mill Type Beats" which was getting attention and thousands of subscribers. Papamitrou started communicating with well known producers such as

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and

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. He was originally discovered through

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by a fan tagging

's manager on his beat video. Papamitrou got signed to Dreamchasers soon after that. Papamitrou became notable after releasing his beat tapes
Apollo
and
Cuatro
on SoundCloud and MyMixtapez, which set him off with the help of

promoting him. In February 2017, Papamitrou released two major songs on Don Q's project "Corner Stories" named "Don Vito," & "It's All Love" with a feature from

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. He then released a song with

on the Meekend II mixtape called, "Young Nxxx Dreams," (ft.

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& Barcelini). On July 21, 2017,

released the

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album worldwide with three major songs produced by Papamitrou. He produced the intro called "

",
Connect The Dots
(ft.

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) and
These Scars
(ft.

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& Guordan Banks). The Wins and Losses Album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 102,000 units in album sales on its first week. The album remained at No. 3 for the second week. Papamitrou explained how he got involved with

and the

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in an interview with My Mixtapez Meek-Nik

Papamitrou also works with many other artists such as Dave East (Album Karma2) Don Q on his song Trap Phone and mixtape Corner Stories. In November 2018, Meek Mill released his new album ''Championships'' that made #1 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Papamitrou produced four songs on that album of which three made it to the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album was also nominated for

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at the 2020 Grammys. In 2021 Nik was part of Meek's new album: "Expensive Pain" and also continue to expand and being part of other artists' projects such as Lil Baby and Snoop Dogg.

Mixtapes

*''Historic'' (2013) *''Trapademikz'' (2016) *''Apollo'' (2016) *''Cuatro'' (2017) *''7 Series'' ft.

*''Corner Stories'' MeekMillPapamitrou

Production discography

References

{{authority control 1995 births Living people American hip-hop record producers Husson University alumni American people of Greek descent