Best Kept Secret (production team)
Best Kept Secret is an American music production duo, composed of Grammy Nominated record producers Julian Nixon and Craig Balmoris. The duo met in 2006, during their time in high school. Former members, Ernest "Tone P" Price, was a part of Best Kept Secret from 2007-2009.
Infusing go-go with hip hop, Best Kept Secret connected with fellow DC native, Wale, to produce the majority of his critically acclaimed mixtape, The Mixtape About Nothing. They would later team up with Clarence "CJ" Mitchell aka "Flawless Tracks" to create one of the most popular SoundClick pages. The SoundClick production is often heard with the producer tag, "Hey it's the Best Kept Secret", and can be found on many Ballislife.com videos and other popular internet content.
Production discography
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale – ''[100 Miles & Running]'' (2007)
- 02. "DC Gorillaz"
- 03. "Ice Cream Girl"
[Rhymefest] – ''Mark Ronson Presents: Man In The Mirror'' (2008)
- 02. "Can't Make It"
- 07. "Never Can Say Goodbye" ft. Talib Kweli
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale – ''[The Mixtape About Nothing]'' (2008)
- 01. "The Opening Title Sequence"
- 03. "The Feature Heavy Song" ft. Bun B, Pusha T and Tre from UCB
- 05. "The Perfect Plan"
- 06. "The Kramer"
- 07. "The Crazy"
- 08. "Vacation from Ourselves"
- 10. "The Grown Up"
- 11. “The Manipulation"
- 12. "Artistic Integrity"
- 18. "The Hype"
- 19. "The End Credits"
[Robin Thicke] – Miscellaneous (2008)
- "Magic" Remix ft. Mary J. Blige and Wale Co- Produced w/ Mark Ronson
[Rhymefest] – ''El Che">El Che (album)">El Che'' (2008)
- 02. "Talk My Shit"
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale – ''Back to the Feature'' (2009)
- 08. "Sweatin Out Weaves" ft. UCB
- 22. "New Soul" ft. Yael Naim
[Young Chris] – ''30 Days 30 Verses'' (2009)
- 16. "Searching" ft. Bun B and Wale
[Skyzoo] – ''The Salvation">The Salvation (album)">The Salvation'' (2009)
- 04. "My Interpretation"
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale – ''Attention Deficit">Attention Deficit (album)">Attention Deficit'' (2009)
- 04. "Pretty Girls" ft. Gucci Mane & Weensey
- 08. "Shades" ft. Chrisette Michele
- 14. "Prescription"
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale - Miscellaneous (2009)
- "Family Affair"
- "Pretty Girls " ft. Fabolous and Chris Brown
Logic">Logic (musician)">Logic - ''Young, Broke & Infamous'' (2010)
- 14. "Ask Em"
[Shawty Lo] - Miscellaneous (2010)
- "Say Yeah" ft. Snoop Dogg
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale – ''More About Nothing'' (2010)
- 03. "The Soup"
- 21. "The Get Away ft. Northeast Groovers"
[Mike Posner] – ''The Layover'' (2011)
- 12. "21 Days"
- 13. "Attitudes" ft. Casey Veggies
[Nipsey Hussle] - TMC: X-Tra Laps (2012)
- 01. "Faith"
[Kendrick Lamar] and [Jay Rock] - The Vault (2012)
- "Hands Up"
[Schoolboy Q] – ''[Habits & Contradictions]'' (2012)
- 03. "Hands on the Wheel" ft. ASAP Rocky
- *Sample credit: "Pursuit of Happiness" - Lissie
Skyzoo - ''A Dream Deferred">A Dream Deferred (album)">A Dream Deferred'' (2012)
- 11. "How to Make It Through Hysteria"
[Tinashe] - ''Reverie">Reverie (Tinashe album)">Reverie'' (2012)
- 05. "Another Me"
[Epic [Rap Battles of History]] (Season 2) (2013)
- Ep. 28 "Adam vs Eve" ft. Jenna Marbles
[Tinashe] - ''Black Water'' (2013)
- 06. "Midnight Sun"
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale - (2014)
- "Royals " ft. Magazeen
[Rittz] - [Next [to Nothing (Rittz album)|Next to Nothing]] (2014)
- 08. "In My Zone" ft. Mike Posner and B.o.B
- 12. "Going Through Hell" ft. Mike Posner
[Teyana Taylor] - VII">VII (Teyana Taylor album)">VII (2014)
- 02. "Just Different"
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale - Festivus (2014)
- 09. "Chess" ft. Jerry Seinfeld
[Tabi Bonney] - Miscellaneous (2014)
- "Poom Poom"
Estelle">Estelle (musician)">Estelle - True Romance">True Romance (Estelle album)">True Romance (2015)
- 05. "Timeshare "
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale - [The Album About Nothing] (2015)
- 12. "The Bloom "
[Cyhi the Prynce] - (2015)
- "Elephant in the Room"
[Dr. Dre] - ''Compton">Compton (album)">Compton'' (2015)
- 06. "Darkside" ft. King Mez
[Rittz] - Top of the Line">Top of the Line (Rittz album)">Top of the Line (2016)
- 05. "Inside of the Groove" ft. Mike Posner and E-40
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale - (2016)
- "Heisman Watch"
[Jidenna] - The Chief">The Chief (album)">The Chief (2017)
- 06. "Long Live the Chief"
SZA">SZA (singer)">SZA - Ctrl">Ctrl (SZA album)">Ctrl (2017)
- 08. "Garden "
Bekon - Get With the Times (2018)
- 01. "7am"
- 02. "America"
- 03. "Cold As Ice"
- 04. "9am"
- 05. "Oxegen"
- 06. "Catch Me If You Can"
- 07. "Mama Olivia"
- 08. "12pm"
- 09. "17"
- 10. "30"
- 11. "4pm"
- 12. "Get With The Times"
- 13. "7pm"
- 14. "Candy and Promises"
- 15. "10pm Soda Break"
- 16. "In Your Honor"
[Lolawolf] - (2018)
- "Baby I'm Dyin'"
[Marsha Ambrosius] - Nyla (2018)
- 09. "Today"
- 13. "Scorn"
[H.E.R.] - [I Used to Know Her: Part 2] (2018)
- 07. "Fate"
- 08. "Lord is Coming"
Wale">Wale (rapper)">Wale - Miscellaneous (2019)
- "09 Folarin"
[Higher Brothers] - [Five Stars (Higher Brothers album)] (2019)
- "Do It Like Me" ft. JID
[Rich Brian] - The Sailor">The Sailor (Rich Brian album)">The Sailor (2019)
- 01. "The Sailor"
- 02. "Rapapapa" ft. RZA
- 04. "Kids"
- 05. "Drive Safe"
- 06. "Confetti"
- 07. "Vacant"
- 08. "No Worries"
- 11. "Curious"
- 12. "Where Does the Time Go" ft. Joji
[H.E.R.] - [I Used to Know Her] (2019)
- 02. "Fate"
- 19. "Lord is Coming" ft. YBN Cordae