Melina Nguyen
Melina Nguyen
The Working on Dying producer presents his debut album with several notable features and a clever radio theme
BNYX, the explosive hip-hop producer from Delaware, has returned with his long-awaited debut album, following a 6-track teaser EP last October. Featuring a star-studded group of collaborators including Quavo, Kid Cudi, Don Toliver, Lancey Foux and more, Genesis FM, thoroughly saturated with his signature futuristic synths and trance-inducing 808s, is BNYX’s official debut as a self-produced artist.
Best known for his production on Drake and Yeat’s projects, BNYX has catapulted himself into the upper echelon of hip-hop producers. He is arguably the poster child for Working on Dying, a Philadelphia-based producer collective, which has had a hand in some of the most popular rap hits in recent years—think Drake’s “I’m Upset,” Yeat’s “Talk,” and “K-POP” by Travis Scott, Bad Bunny, and The Weeknd.
BNYX kept a strict, exclusive roster of producers on this album, including some mainstay names that have recently permeated the Billboard charts.
206DEREK is a Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum music producer, engineer, and go-to producer of Don Toliver. The LA-based producer has most recently worked on 14 of 18 tracks on Toliver's Octane, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. He has also worked with Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott, SZA, Beyoncé, and more.
Christian Beau Anastasiou Astrop, who goes by Beau Nox, is a producer and recording artist from the Netherlands best known for producing the majority of Drake’s 2022 album Honestly Nevermind. His production credits extend from Joe Jonas, The Chainsmokers, and Slayyyter to 6LACK, Kid Cudi, and Gucci Mane. Nox is well-versed in electronic, hip-hop, and pop music and has even produced for famous K-pop acts like BTS and ENHYPEN.
Argentinian producer and audiovisual artist Gonzalo Julián Conde, known professionally as Bizarrap, has had an illustrious career consisting of collaborations with Bad Bunny, Shakira, Khea, DrefQuila, and Kodigo, among others. With a specialization in EDM and Latin hip-hop, Bizarrap’s musical inspirations include electronic music legends such as Skrillex and Martin Garrix.
Immanuel Wilkins, a saxophonist and composer from Philadelphia, is at the forefront of improvisation, jazz, history, and Black ancestry. The multidisciplinary artist has been featured on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert, received several awards for saxophone and composing, and earned the #1 Jazz Album of the Year by The New York Times for his debut recording, Omega. In addition, Wilkins received a nomination in the Best Alternative Jazz Album category for his 2024 album Blues Blood during the 2026 Grammy Awards.
LA-based producer Mathaius Young has been a part of BNYX’s entourage of creative collaborators for the past few years, joining his label Dataclub in 2024. Young, a self-produced artist as well, has been featured on Apple’s “The Producers” playlist and has earned production credits with Big Sean, Brent Faiyaz, Denzel Curry, and more. The most recent additions to his production resumé are his credits on Yeat’s “Griddlë” and “Made It On Our Own.”
Born as Desmond Rasberry, MONEY JEZU$ is a Tampa native who began making music at 16, later appearing on the Cap 1 mixtape featuring Jeremih, 2 Chainz, and Verse Simmonds. He has also produced for Don Toliver, Big Sean, Yeat, Lil Tecca, Coi Leray, and more.
“[H]ad the privilege of working on ‘Fallen’ w [Don Toliver]. By far one of my favorite songs I’ve ever worked on. We took it to a whole different realm with this. S/0 to [BNYX] for making a great album and my brudda [206DEREK],” he wrote on Instagram.
PREPLAY is a producer closely affiliated with BNYX, working alongside him on releases for PinkPantheress and Tee Grizzley. His credits include “Bury me” on PinkPantheress’ 2023 album Heaven knows and several tracks on rapper Nav’s limited digital exclusive edition of OMW2 REXDALE, working extensively with the latter’s management company YCFU, which also represents The Weeknd and Metro Boomin.
“I remember the day you told me you were going to put out your first album. Still surreal seeing my name on Genesis FM. Grateful to be a part of this journey with someone who inspired me long before we ever worked together,” PRESPLAY wrote in part on Instagram, alluding to future collaborations with BNYX.