Adrian Younge

In the four years since Adrian Younge's 'Something About April' album first appeared, the Los Angeles-based producer and multi-instrumentalist has become his own musical cottage industry. Not only has he collaborated with musical legends ranging from The Delfonics to Ghostface Killah, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and The Souls of Mischief; his work has also been sampled by such rap giants as 50 Cent, Jay-Z and Common. In an equally impressive twist, DJ Premier produced an entire album with Younge's work as his only source material (including multiple samples from 'April,' of course): 2014's 'PRhyme,' with MC Royce Da 5'9'. 'Something About April' is an album that flaunts all of the trademarks that have made Younge an in-demand name as a composer and sample source-point.