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“Finally! I’m blessed to have a very supportive family, but there was a lot of talk about how ‘You need to get a real job’ over the years. “Yeah, it will be one of my biggest paydays,” Adams said. And there might be a nice payday coming, depending on how “Pressure” sells. Meantime, he’s working with other acts including Grammy-nominated R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, Hamilton’s backup group The Hamiltones and Fantasia’s brother, Ricco Barrino.

So you’re in this big wide sea of people sending in stuff, hoping you’ll get noticed.” “So many people are doing this, trying to make it. That beat became the music to “Grape,” a song on Jeezy’s 2010 mixtape “Trap or Die 2.” Adams kept in touch with Jeezy’s representatives and submitted a number of beats at the beginning of this year, when Jeezy was assembling material for “Pressure.” By the time the album was released, he had production credits on two songs, “In a Major Way” and “Respect.” But this beat is pretty much a done deal.’ ” “ ‘Hey,’ I said to everybody, ‘This is Jeezy.

“He called, played the record on the phone, and it just so happened it was the same beat we were recording on that night,” Adams said. He got the news one night while in the studio with another artist.

Adams sent in a few, one of which made the cut. His first big break came about seven years ago, when Jeezy’s management put out a call for beats on Twitter. He has spent the past decade on the studio hustle, producing tracks for hip-hop and R&B acts around Eastern North Carolina. Making a globally released album puts it in perspective about what really goes into the process.”Īdams, a 2004 graduate from Durham School of the Arts, played in the marching band there as well as at NC Central. “I work with a lot of indie talent, helping them develop and learn how to record. “As far as business and contracts and all that, it was the most intense process I’ve been through,” he said. He lives in Greensboro now, working as an engineer at a recording studio. “This is definitely my biggest placement, by far,” Adams, 31, said Friday as Jeezy was trending on Twitter. The national attention should take Adams, who has mostly worked with independent artists, a long way.