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Kesha Lee was still a student five years ago, learning the basics of audio engineering at Atlanta Institute of Music. Today, however, she records some of hip-hop's brightest and boundary-pushing young stars. Lee's big break was when local trap god Gucci Mane added her to the small stable of engineers at his studio. While still in school, Lee would record Gucci, along with the impressive number of artists he discovered, like Migos and Young Thug. In 2014, after graduation, mixtape mavens DJ Drama and Don Cannon hired Lee as an in-house engineer for Means Street Studios. Her primary task was to record their oddball Generation Now signee, Lil Uzi Vert, and breakout hits like “Money Longer.” But as Uzi's universe and influence grew, so did Lee's. Last summer, Billboard's Hot 100 chart featured five songs she recorded, including Playboi Carti's “Magnolia,” Migos' “Bad and Boujee,” and, of course, Uzi's “XO TOUR Llif3.”
