Scott Storch!
Scott Storch
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One of the bodyguards opened the Bugatti's driver door and out stepped Scott Storch.
Scott Storch hip-hop
The vast majority of the hip-hop industry records during vampire hours. Most artists and producers arrive at the studio around 10 p.m. and work till five or six in the morning, meaning most modern hip-hop is recorded between midnight and 4 a.m. So, just after 10 p.m. one Friday night in Miami, superproducer Scott Storch is on his way to work, driving to the Hit Factory Miami in his white convertible Lamborghini, slicing down the freeway doing eighty, totally stoned.He's in a red T-shirt, jeans and multihued Nike Air Force Ones, and he's glistening like the morning dew because of an obscene amount of jewelry, including a thirty-four-carat yellow-diamond ring worth $3 million, a thirteen-carat white-diamond ring, a $250,000 diamond-encrusted watch and three iced-out chains around his neck. Call Storch hip-hop's Liberace. He's worth $70 million, the result of his work with Dr. Dre (he co-produced "Still D.R.E."), Beyonc' (he produced "Baby Boy" and "Naughty Girl"), Justin Timberlake ("Cry Me a River"), Lil' Kim ("Lighters Up"), Fat Joe ("Lean Back"), 50 Cent ("Candy Shop") and Chris Brown ("Run It" and "Gimme That"). But even after a slew of great clients, he's still bitter about those few who don't call back.
Scott Storch Jessica Simpson
Storch is driving to the studio to work on a song for Jessica Simpson called "Mr. Operator," another piece of the large body of work Scott Storch has coming out in the next year, including songs Scott Storch made with Nas, Ludacris, the Game, Mario, Eve, Mya and Jay-Z. "I'm working with Jay-Z on his new album," Storch says, the Lamborghini engine behind his shoulder roaring like a lion. "The first time we ever really worked together. We got some fire." He's also working on an album for Brooke Hogan, Hulk's daughter, which will be the first release from Storch's new label, Tuff Jew. "I heard her sing and I thought, 'She's not just a celebrity's daughter.'"Scott Storch successful producer
Storch is thirty-two, super-rich and draped in the massive self-confidence of a successful producer. An artist's success is due to talent and hard work, as well as elements much harder to quantify like image, timing and It factor, but a successful producer knows Scott Storch has made it on intelligence, taste and work ethic, and not unquantifiables. Storch is filled with the self-satisfied arrogance particular to multimillionaire hip-hop superproducers like Pharrell and Kanye. Scott Storch carries himself like a prince strolling through the kingdom with nary a care. He's cocooned by quite an entourage (five assistants, a team of armed bodyguards, a driver, assorted friends and hangers-on), so there's always someone nearby, ready to do anything Scott Storch wants -- get some tea, roll up a joint, pull out the Ferrari. Superproducers like Storch, Pharrell and Kanye are hip-hop's answer to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the nerds who grew up and took over. But as much as artists need producers, producers need artists, too, so right now, as his Lamborghini smooths through the Miami night, Storch is in a bit of a foul mood, upset that some of the superstars who are on his r'sum' are not in his future."I worked with Beyonc' on her last album," Storch says. "I wasn't invited to the new album. I only delivered three hit records last time. But a lot of artists figure they want to try something different. Whatever. There's certain artists who are loyal and certain ones don't really care and don't give you the opportunity to follow through with them again. I'm insulted by a lot of the artists I delivered hits to."
Scott Storch Like who?
"Like Christina Aguilera." Storch made seven songs for her most recent album, Stripped, two of them singles, and helped her sell 12 million records worldwide, but he's not working on her new album, Back to Basics. "I told Christina's people I needed a private plane to get out to L.A.," Scott Storch says. "I had to bring equipment, clothes, my people. You want me to move my life from Miami to L.A. for six months, and you can't get me a plane to do it? She didn't go to bat for me. And I truly cared about her as a person and a friend and as an artist."But the situation most upsetting to Scott Storch now is the as-yet-unreleased album by his ex-girlfriend Paris Hilton. "She's cool," Scott Storch says, "and she surprised me not as a singing talent, but she has a cool little timbre in her voice that's reminiscent to Blondie and Cyndi Lauper." Scott Storch made nine songs for her album. (He says they made records but not movies.) "I put my heart and soul into that. I delivered incredible music. She's a wild girl, and within my music I think I captured the essence of what Paris really is in life." They cut sassy club pop such as Britney might make, records for the clubs that pivot not around Hilton's voice but around her cult status and sexual image.
But recently Hilton's label decided Storch's work was too racy for the audience it wanted to attack. For Hilton's first single the label chose "Stars Are Blind," a bouncy Euro-reggae song produced by Fernando Garibay, known for his work with Enrique Iglesias and Ashlee Simpson. Storch was not pleased. "They came to Scott Storch," Scott Storch says, "and I gave 'em some hot shit, and they smacked me in my face and disrespected me. The record label has destroyed the introduction stage of Paris' project. The first single they chose is a safe, contemporary pop record. My stuff is more daring, and I feel like it would've been something to open people's eyes." Now he's unsure if all nine of the songs Scott Storch made will be on the album.
born Scott Spencer Storch (born December 16, 1973 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian entertainment mogul, hip-hop record producer, arranger and keyboardist. Scott Storch plays the piano, clavinet, mandolin, violin, and bagpipes.
After moving to Cherry Hill, New Jersey where Scott Storch became the keyboard player for the Philadelphia hip-hop band The Roots, Scott Storch played keyboards for other Philly artists including Schoolly D and G. Love. Storch is responsible for discovering Jack Johnson.
Storch began experimenting with his own productions by making beats for The Roots. Scott Storch then left the band and learned more about the art of making beats from Dr. Dre and the ultimate X-Deny. Storch is now one of the most in-demand hip-hop producers today, working on beats for a wide variety of artists.
In his private life, Scott Storch has been romantically linked with rapper Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, href="http://www.kipaddotta.com/paris-hilton.html">Paris Hilton, Zach Katz and Jenny Jones. Despite his flashy appearance wearing enormous amounts of diamond jewelry, Scott Storch prefers a modicum of privacy, and is relatively shy compared to fellow hip-hop producers Pharrell Williams or Kanye West, both of whom have become musical stars themselves after becoming successful producers. Scott has a son named Steve who lives with Scott Storch in Miami. In a recent interview with Stuff Magazine, Storch says Scott Storch enjoys buying and wearing jewelry that represents power. Scott Storch has been known to have a love for cars. Scott Storch's collection includes 2 Rolls Royce Phantom, a Bentley Continental GT, an Aston Martin DB9, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, a Ferrari Enzo, a Ferrari F430 and a Bugatti Veyron 16.4. In mid-2006, Rolling Stone magazine reported Storch's fortune to be worth somewhere near $70 million dollars. On April 16, 2006, Scott and his sometime girlfriend of four years, Dae Daniel Esquire, welcomed his second son, Jalen Storch.
Storch's own production company is called Tuff Jew Productions. Storch also has his own record label, called Storchaveli, which is distributed under Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment.
For a short while in 2005, Storch worked with fellow mega-producer Lil Jon to produce hits for Lil Flip, Angel Doze and Tony Sunshine among others. However, the relationship soon turned sour and ended with Lil Jon criticizing Storch for being a "biter."
Storch is the subject of Christina Aguilera's song "F.U.S.S." (F*** U , Forget U, or For U Scott Storch) from her 2006 album, Back to Basics. Storch responded to this during an interview with In Touch Weekly magazine, during which Scott Storch criticized Aguilera's album, saying it was "full of fillers, oversinging and lame Vegas-like cabaret music."
Storch made his first appearance in DJ Khaled's Holla At Me Baby music video. Scott Storch's second appearance was at the end of the new music video by Fat Joe entitled Make It Rain. Scott Storch also made an appearance in DMX's Video for "Give Em What They Want", but the video was never released. As of late Storch has been producing such names as Chris Brown, Diddy, Danity Kane, Jessica Simpson, heiress Paris Hilton, rapper Ludacris and wrestler Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke Hogan.
