Easy Mo Bee is a Grammy Award-winning hip-hop producer from Brooklyn, New York, and one of the architects of hip-hop's golden-age sound. He produced landmark tracks on The Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready to Die and Tupac Shakur's Me Against the World, and worked with Miles Davis on the jazz legend's final album, a crossover that helped bridge jazz and hip-hop for a generation.His credits span Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Craig Mack's Flava In Ya Ear, Alicia Keys and many more. A crate-digger and SP-1200 craftsman, Mo Bee built his sound on vinyl, sampling and a deep respect for the music that came before him.ICONIC BEATS is his first book, telling the stories behind the records in his own words. He also wrote the foreword to House Music 101: The History.