He’s not a household name yet, but up and coming producer Syience is getting calls from the biggest names in the business, including Jay-Z and Michael Jackson.

When Flint, MI producer Syience (born Reggie Perry) arrived in New York two years ago he never imagined he’d soon be making beats for Jay-Z’s comeback album Kingdom Come. Fortunately fate joined the young musician with Def Jam singer/songwriter Ne-Yo and the rest is history.

“The first time my managers took me to Sony, they were working on Omarion and they said ‘we gotta put him and Ne-Yo together.’ People knew our sound together would be something unique,” Syience told SOHH.

While working on new material the two wrote “Hollywood,” a track initially intended for Ne-Yo.

“I remember Ne-Yo coming to the studio like ‘Jay-Z wants to use Hollywood for one of his singles,’” Syience recalled. “My first reaction was ‘Jay Z out of retirement!’ I’m so much a fan, before I could realize that he wanted to use my track I was just excited he was doing another album. Ne-Yo was like ‘Did you hear what I said?’ I didn’t believe it until I actually heard the vocals when I went to track the song out.”

After hearing Jay’s vocals, Syience made some additional changes to the song, further impressing the Def Jam mogul, who also used the session to dispense some advice.

“Jay came in toward the end of the process like, ‘What are you doing?’” basically like, ‘the song was already a hit, why are y’all letting him make changes?’ They played the track and Jay stopped it where it was breaking down like ‘Yo, you really are the truth,’” Syience remembered. “Jay talked to me about a lot of things that probably would happen…just the business, the way it comes so fast and the way things can change, and how it can have you pretty much crazy.”

Fans of nearly every music genre can look forward to hearing more from Syience via his music production company Stay Fresh. He is currently working with Alicia Keys, Cee-Lo Green, Keyshia Cole, Chrisette Michele, Daniel Mayweather, Lupe Fiasco, Amy Winehouse and Wynter Gordon.

“Hopefully, I can be on the Gnarl’s Barkley project,” Syience said, before revealing a reluctance to go into detail. “I hate speaking on things before they happen. I’ve been a part of a lot of projects and spoke on them and then at the last minute the label will say ‘this ain’t coming out until next year. We don’t even know if we’re releasing this album.’ So I just wait until the album is ready to drop.”

However, Syience did confirm that a new Janet Jackson album is in the works and he’s vying to work with the King of Pop as well.

“I’m actually working on music for him now,” he said. “I always wanted to be a part of anything he ever did. Nobody really knows what Michael Jackson is going to do. Even the biggest producers and writers are not sure what’s going to happen with that, but we are all sitting back and still creating and trying to get on the project. They asked me to work on the project so we’re working on it. We’re working on Janet Jackson as well. She’s coming back. Pretty much everybody is a potential Syience track getter.”

Source: SOHH.com

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