Rashad Smith


Burton Rashad "Ringo" Smith is a hip hop and R&B super producer. He was born in England and raised in Brooklyn, New York City in a Jamaican and Haitian family. Rashad grew up along side notable hip hop artists like Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, among others.
At the age of 19, he provided beats to Main Source, Eric B and Rakim and A Tribe Called Quest. He proceeded further into the music business by working directly with Andre Harrel at the newly minted Uptown Records. While at Uptown, Rashad met session keyboardist Avon Marshell with whom he formed Tumblin Dice. The duo went on to produce for Uptown's biggest artist's, including Mary J Blige and Jodeci's critically acclaimed early albums. Tumblin Dice would go on to become resident producers for the recently formed BadBoy Records, after Sean "Puffy" Combs personally requested Rashad Join his production team "The Hitmen". During this time Rashad produced chart topping hit after hit after hit. In 1995 he laid the beat for a remix of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "One More Chance'', Which is one of the few remixes to surpass the original version for radio playability. Rashad continued his chart topping success after composing Busta Rhymes first hit single "Woo Hah!!". Rashad has composed tracks for Aaliyah, Fat Joe,Mc Lyte,Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Das EFX, Slick Rick, En Vogue, 50 Cent, Erykah Badu, Nicki Minaj, Dj Khaled and much much more.

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