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Danny Turner

“It's not just about the money – I just wanted my name on there because it was my work and somebody else took the credit”: Rogét Chahayed on signing away his contributions to Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly for "a few thousand bucks"

Roget.

Before making the leap from classical piano to hip-hop production, Grammy-nominated songwriter Rogét Chahayed found his way into Dr Dre's orbit, where long days in the studio taught him to think less like a virtuoso and more like a hit-maker.

Chahayed's apprenticeship with Dre would eventually lead to credits on some of the biggest songs of the past decade, from Travis Scott's Sicko Mode to Drake's recent chart-topper Janice STFU.

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