Production · Performance
L.E.S.
real name Leshan David Lewis
L.E.S. is credited on 595 releases across 116 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1994–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
595
Credits
116
Albums
4
Decades active
472
In collections
Biography
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Long serving Queensbridge producer.
L.E.S. has worked with Nas, Mobb Deep, Royal Flush and many other rappers, and contributed "Life's a Bitch" to Nas' venerated debut "Illmatic".
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
595 releases · 116 albums · active 1994–2025
- Production · 884
- Performance · 154
- Other credits · 11
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Chung King Studios · D&D Studios · Battery Studios, New York · Unique Recording
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Illmatic
1994
It Was Written
1996
Stillmatic
2001
Capital Punishment
1998
In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
1997
I Am...
1999
The Lost Tapes
2002
Nastradamus
1999
Big Willie Style
1997
Hip Hop Is Dead
2006
Street's Disciple
2004
Doe Or Die
1995
Nastradamus
1999
If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
1996
Hate Me Now
1999
Don Cartagena
1998
Phenomenon
1997
Sugar Hill
1995
Jealous One's Envy
1995
Pieces Of A Man
1998
N.O.R.E.
1998
The Album
1997
The Essential Nas
2013
Guess Who's Back?
2002
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