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30 Roc

American musical artist

Samuel Jordon Gloade, known professionally as 30 Roc, is an American record producer and songwriter. He began his career in 2014 as an in-house producer for Mike Will Made It's EarDrummers Records, but has since expanded into solo production work for several prominent music industry artists. He has been credited on the Billboard Hot 100-number one single "The Box" by Roddy Ricch; the top ten singles "Nasty Freestyle" by T-Wayne, "Rake It Up" by Yo Gotti, and "Stargazing" by Travis Scott; and the top 40 singles "Bartier Cardi" by Cardi B, "King's Dead" by Jay Rock, and "Off the Grid" by Kanye West.

01Early life

Samuel Gloade was born in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. He met American record producer Mike Will Made It through his rap duo Rae Sremmurd on Twitter. He later signed to the former's record label EarDrummers Records.

02Career

His most notable production include T-Wayne's "Nasty Freestyle", "Rake It Up" by Yo Gotti featuring Nicki Minaj, Cardi B's hit single, "Bartier Cardi", which features 21 Savage, "Rock" by Plies, and "King's Dead" which was performed by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake. 30 Roc also produced Roddy Ricch's number 1 hit, "The Box", which reached the pole position of the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2020. He also helped produce the intro track of Travis Scott's Astroworld, "Stargazing", peaking at number eight on the Hot 100 in 2018. Gloade was also an executive producer for Lil Yachty's second studio album, Lil Boat 2. He served as a producer for Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar's “Range Brothers”, a single from the former's debut studio album, The Melodic Blue.

03Production discography

Charted songs

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US US
R&B/HH
AUS CAN IRE UK
"Nasty Freestyle"
(T-Wayne)
2015 9 4 37 25 65 41 Non-album single
"Peek a Boo"
(Lil Yachty featuring Migos)
2017 78 33 , 73 , , Teenage Emotions
"Rake It Up"
(Yo Gotti featuring Nicki Minaj)
8 5 124 49 , , I Still Am
"Rock"
(Plies)
95 40 , , , , Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3
"Bartier Cardi"
(Cardi B featuring 21 Savage)
14 7 77 18 51 40 Invasion of Privacy
"King's Dead"
(Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake and Future)
2018 21 13 58 23 51 50 Black Panther: The Album and Redemption
"Boom!"
(Lil Yachty featuring Ugly God)
88 43 , , , , Lil Boat 2
"Gucci Flip Flops"
(Bhad Bhabie featuring Lil Yachty)
79 39 , 62 , , 15
"Close"
(Rae Sremmurd featuring Travis Scott)
98 48 , 71 , , SR3MM
"Stargazing"
(Travis Scott)
8 7 10 7 12 15 Astroworld
"Who? What!"
(Travis Scott featuring Quavo and Takeoff)
43 26 , 41 , ,
"Biggest Alley Oop"
(Quavo)
86 40 , 69 , , Quavo Huncho
"The Box"
(Roddy Ricch)
2020 1 1 4 1 2 2 Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial
"T.D"
(Lil Yachty and Tierra Whack featuring Tyler, the Creator and ASAP Rocky)
83 34 , , , , Lil Boat 3
"What That Speed Bout!?"
(Mike Will Made It, Nicki Minaj and YoungBoy Never Broke Again)
35 11 , 76 , , Michael
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