Kevin White is a Los Angeles-based record producer, songwriter and recording engineer whose credits stretch from a Grammy-nominated comedy-rap single in 2011 to some of the biggest streaming hits of the mid-2020s. Working first as one half of the production duo Rice N' Peas and later under his own name, White co-wrote and produced Bazzi's multi-platinum breakthroughs "Beautiful" and "Mine," served as executive producer on Chelsea Cutler's 2023 album Stellaria, co-wrote and co-produced Artemas's viral 2024 single "i like the way you kiss me," and produced two tracks on Nessa Barrett's Aftercare. Despite a catalog that reportedly runs past 350 individual credits, White has almost no public-facing profile of his own: no long-form interviews, no verified social media presence beyond a production-industry Instagram handle, and no confirmed biographical details such as a birthdate or hometown. Nearly everything known about him comes secondhand, through the artists and collaborators who have worked with him.
The name "Kevin White" is common enough that it attaches to an NFL wide receiver, a Canadian television writer, an audio educator, and several unrelated musicians online. The subject of this entry is identifiable through a consistent chain of professional credits: Genius and Wikipedia both list him as co-writer and co-producer on Artemas's "i like the way you kiss me" alongside Toby Daintree and Jesse Fink, the Artist Publishing Group bio page for a producer named Kevin White lists that same song among his credits next to his well-documented Bazzi and Rice N' Peas catalog, and that same profile is independently corroborated by Wikipedia's personnel tables for Nessa Barrett's Aftercare album, which credit him on two tracks. Across every source, one continuous professional identity emerges: a Los Angeles-based producer-songwriter who spent the 2010s largely inside the duo Rice N' Peas before building an individual production career centered on repeat, multi-year artist partnerships rather than one-off placements.
Public biographical detail beyond his professional catalog is sparse. No confirmed birth date, hometown or educational background has surfaced in available sources, and even his full legal name is inconsistent across records: Wikipedia's songwriter credit blocks for Bazzi's "Beautiful" list him as "Kevin Clark White" on the 2017 original and "Kevin Edward Brewster White" on the 2018 Camila Cabello remix. Every other identifying marker, including Rice N' Peas membership and the Bazzi discography, matches across both credit blocks, suggesting a data inconsistency rather than two different people, though it has not been resolved against a primary registry source.
White's earliest documented professional footprint is as one half of Rice N' Peas, a Los Angeles production duo formed with Mike Woods (also styled "Mykeyz" Woods). The pairing landed a Grammy nomination almost immediately: their production work on The Lonely Island's comedy-rap single "Jack Sparrow," featuring Michael Bolton, was part of the group's Turtleneck & Chain album, which earned a nomination for Best Comedy Album at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012. "Jack Sparrow" itself reached number one on Billboard's comedy chart, cracked the top three of the Billboard 200 as part of the album, and charted internationally in Sweden, Norway, Canada, Australia and the UK.
Through the first half of the 2010s, Rice N' Peas built a broad R&B, pop and hip-hop client list that included Mario, Elliot Yamin, Chrisette Michele, Eve, Cody Simpson, Prince Royce, B.o.B, Emblem3, Trevor Jackson, Kalin and Miles, The Voice Season 2 winner Jermaine Paul, G-Unit affiliate Kidd Kidd, and a writing and production credit on John Mayer's Continuum album. The duo's reach extended into K-pop as well: IMDb credits Rice N' Peas with music-video work on EXO's "Love Shot" (2018), and Wikipedia's personnel tables for NCT 127's 2017 EP Cherry Bomb credit "Kevin White (Rice N' Peas)" as a co-composer on the title track alongside Dem Jointz, Jennifer Decilveo, Bazzi and Korean composer Deez, a credit that carried over to the song's 2018 English-language version. It is a rare instance in White's catalog of direct writing-side credit on a major South Korean label release, and it shows that the Rice N' Peas and Bazzi camp had cross-pollinating relationships with K-pop's songwriting-camp system by the mid-2010s.
White's biggest and longest-running break came through his and Woods's work with Bazzi (Andrew Bazzi), beginning around the viral rise of "Mine" in 2017 and 2018. Rice N' Peas co-wrote and produced or engineered Bazzi's debut single "Beautiful" (2017, remixed in 2018 with Camila Cabello) and his platinum-certified debut album Cosmic (2018), a sixteen-track project on which, per Wikipedia's tracklist notes, all tracks were produced by Rice N' Peas and Bazzi except where noted, including the five-times-platinum "Mine." Apple Music's editorial description of Cosmic singles out the duo's contribution directly: "Riding shotgun throughout the project is production duo Rice 'N' Peas, who use twinkling synths and pianos to bring a touch of wide-eyed euphoria to every song."
The Bazzi relationship became the throughline of White's career for the better part of a decade, continuing through Soul Searching (2019, featuring the platinum singles "Paradise" and "I.F.L.Y."), "Young & Alive" (2020), and Infinite Dreams (2022). Bazzi has called White his "longtime collaborator and best friend," recalling that their 2022 single "Heaven" was written "in Hawaii around 2 and a half years ago." Per the aggregator Dork, Bazzi remains White's single most-credited artist across both production (45 tracks) and songwriting (26 tracks).
Alongside the Bazzi work, Rice N' Peas and White built a parallel R&B songwriting practice, most visibly on Kiana Ledé's 2020 debut album KIKI, executive-produced by Woods, on which White appears as a credited co-writer on at least eight tracks, including "Cancelled," "Mad at Me," "Forfeit" (featuring Lucky Daye), "Second Chances" (featuring 6lack), "Crazy," "Labels" (featuring Moneybagg Yo and Bia), and "Protection," reflecting the dense, team-based writing-room approach typical of major-label R&B album cycles of that era.
White and Woods also landed a UK pop placement in this period. British singer Anne-Marie's 2018 single "Perfect to Me," from her debut album Speak Your Mind, credits White and Woods as programmers, Rice N' Peas as producer, and White individually, alongside Woods, Anne-Marie Nicholson, Jennifer Decilveo and Levi Lennox, as a co-writer, a five-way split typical of British-American co-writing-camp structure. The song's music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis for Atlantic Records, situates the duo within major-label British pop machinery as well as the Bazzi and American R&B lane they were better known for at the time.
White's relationship with Chelsea Cutler developed into one of his longest-running individual, rather than Rice N' Peas-branded, production partnerships, spanning roughly 2021 to 2023. He co-produced her 2021 single "You Can Have It" and produced 2022's "Men on the Moon" before the relationship culminated in an executive-producer role across her third studio album, Stellaria (2023). Universal Music Canada's own album announcement frames Cutler as the primary creative driver on the project, writing that "she took the reins in the studio, spearheading production and engineering the tracks herself alongside collaborator Kevin White [Kiana Ledé, Bazzi]," explicitly naming his prior Kiana Ledé and Bazzi work as his calling-card credentials when introducing him to her fanbase.
Cutler herself, discussing the album with Grammy.com, said: "Kevin ended up executive producing the whole album. He's just an absolute rock star, and being able to have a partner really helped me stay true to the vision that I had. Having an incredible team behind you really goes a long way." Apple Music's metadata for the Stellaria single "you're all i ever dreamed of" credits White in a dual role as both producer and recording engineer and programmer, reinforcing his hands-on, multi-hat working style. Per Cutler's own account, White produced or co-produced thirteen of the album's fifteen songs.
In February 2024, White co-wrote and co-produced Artemas's "i like the way you kiss me" during a Los Angeles writing sprint alongside producer Toby Daintree and songwriter Jesse Fink. Artemas told 10 Magazine Australia: "I also had the help of producer Kevin White who I've known for a few years. The origins of most of the songs came from a very fruitful two weeks when we also wrote 'i like the way you kiss me.'" Daintree, recounting the session to Music Week, said the song "came about when we were in LA working with Kevin White and Jesse Finkelstein, which was crazy," adding, "Kev is so efficient that it makes the whole session so easy." Daintree separately described the writing pace during that stretch as roughly two songs a day over three days, with "i like the way you kiss me" arriving on the third day, and called the whole experience "the best writing experience I've ever had."
According to that same account, the track's sound shifted toward a "darkwave kind of sound" after the room referenced acts like Eyedress and Mareux, before double-time drums and percussive, high-end bass were layered in, sonic signatures now closely associated with Artemas's viral sound. The song released independently on March 19, 2024, and became a global hit, reaching number three in the UK, topping the charts in Germany and Austria, and passing 500 million Spotify streams within the year. White went on to produce across Artemas's follow-up mixtape yustyna (2024), including the track "dirty little secret," and continued the partnership through "Southbound"/"test drive" (2025) and multiple songs on the 2026 mixtape getting up to no good, including "more than just a little bit" and "psychokiller." Per Dork's tally, Artemas is now White's second most-credited artist across both production (24 tracks) and songwriting (22 tracks), behind only Bazzi.
In 2024, White also joined Nessa Barrett's camp for her Warner Records album Aftercare, released November 15, 2024. Wikipedia's personnel breakdown credits him as playing "all instruments, programming" on track five, "Passenger Princess" (also released as "PASSENGER PRINCESS (late night)"), and track eight, "S.L.U.T.," alongside mixing and recording-engineer credits on both. On "S.L.U.T." specifically, he is credited as sole producer, songwriter, engineer and instrumentalist, a self-contained, one-stop role distinct from the team-based writing-room credits that mark much of his earlier catalog.
Barrett described the "Passenger Princess" session in an interview: "Passenger princess, I wrote that with uh Maddie, um, my writer that I've literally written my whole album with, uh Jesse [Fink], and uh producer was Kevin White, and I've never worked with him before, but it was such a fun first session... we heard the beat and it was giving very Tokyo Drift, and so we kind of used that as inspo for the lyrics." On the album's Genius credits page, Barrett thanked him directly: "Kevin, thank you so much. You are so talented, creative & truly one of the best collaborators I've ever had. I'm so grateful to have you on this project and many more to come." Both quotes describe the pairing as a first-time collaboration that immediately became a warm, trusted one, echoing the pattern of White's longer relationships with Bazzi and Artemas.
White's discography splits into two loosely related lanes. The first, running roughly from 2011 to 2023, is glossy, hook-driven pop, R&B and hip-hop production built around Rice N' Peas' work with Bazzi, Kiana Ledé, G-Eazy and Chelsea Cutler, characterized by clean vocal production, radio-ready choruses and heavy programming polish, reflected in his frequent "Producer, Recording Engineer" or "Programmer" credit combinations. The second, more recent lane, from 2024 onward, is his work inside Artemas's darkwave and alt-pop camp alongside Toby Daintree, where the reference points shift toward artists like Eyedress and Mareux and the production leans into double-time drums and bass-forward mixing.
A useful throughline connects both eras: White operates comfortably in duo or small-team writing rooms rather than as a singular producer with one signature sound stamped across every credit. His Bazzi work leans radio-pop, his Kiana Ledé and Anne-Marie work leans R&B and UK pop songcraft, his Chelsea Cutler work leans introspective electro-alt-pop, and his Artemas and Nessa Barrett work leans darker and bass-forward. Across his catalog he has been billed variously as Producer, Co-Producer, Executive Producer, Programmer, Recording Engineer, Mixing Engineer and Songwriter, sometimes several simultaneously on a single track, suggesting an adaptive technical collaborator rather than an artist-facing hitmaker exporting one aesthetic. One technical constant across nearly every credit examined is his regular pairing of production and programming work with recording-engineering duties on the same track, indicating a producer who builds instrumentals and programs drums and synths largely from the DAW outward, then captures and engineers vocal takes himself, rather than handing engineering off to a separate specialist.
White is a producer client of Artist Publishing Group, the publishing arm affiliated with Artist Partner Group, the Mike Caren-founded label and publishing company that operated as an eight-year joint venture with Atlantic Records before becoming independent in November 2020. Artist Partner Group's roster has at various points included Bazzi, Charlie Puth, Kehlani, Ava Max, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Don Toliver, Alec Benjamin and Rico Nasty. White's APG bio page frames his catalog in certification-forward terms, listing "5X plat" for "Mine" and "4X plat" for "Beautiful," a common publisher marketing convention aimed at demonstrating commercial reliability to labels and A&Rs rather than building direct fan recognition. He appeared on an APG-affiliated podcast episode alongside fellow roster producers Grizz, London Jae and Lowell in late 2024, indicating an active, ongoing relationship with the company.
No ASCAP or BMI individual songwriter-registry page for Kevin White, under any name variant, has been located via public search, and no dedicated management representative distinct from his publisher has been identified. His public digital footprint is similarly minimal: a production-industry Instagram handle, @kevwhite, surfaces in third-party "type beat" video credits, and a personal website, kevinwhitemusic.com, operates under the banner "K-Dub Music Co," though its content appears sparse. No verified TikTok, X or Facebook account specific to this Kevin White has been confidently identified, and no first-person, long-form interview featuring him as the primary subject has surfaced anywhere in his catalog's history, from the 2011 Lonely Island credit through his 2026 Artemas work. Every quote about him comes filtered through the artist or collaborator being interviewed.
White's commercial footprint is best measured through certifications and chart data attached to the songs he has produced or co-written, since he has not built an artist-facing public profile of his own. The table below gathers the clearest documented figures.
| Track | Artist | Year | Certification / Chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Jack Sparrow" | The Lonely Island feat. Michael Bolton | 2011 | No. 1, Billboard comedy chart; Grammy nomination, Best Comedy Album (2012) |
| "Beautiful" | Bazzi (feat. Camila Cabello remix) | 2017/2018 | 4x Platinum (U.S.); No. 43, Billboard Hot 100 |
| "Mine" | Bazzi | 2017 | 5x Platinum (U.S.) |
| "i like the way you kiss me" | Artemas | 2024 | No. 3, UK Singles Chart; No. 1, Germany and Austria; 500M+ Spotify streams as of 2024 |
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Rice N' Peas (White and Mike Woods) produce The Lonely Island's "Jack Sparrow," earning a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. |
| 2017–2018 | Co-writes and engineers Bazzi's breakout "Beautiful," including its Camila Cabello remix. |
| 2018 | Contributes to Bazzi's debut album Cosmic (No. 14, Billboard 200), featuring 5x-platinum "Mine"; co-writes and produces Anne-Marie's "Perfect to Me." |
| 2019 | Produces on Bazzi's Soul Searching, spawning platinum singles "Paradise" and "I.F.L.Y." |
| 2020 | Co-writes across multiple tracks on Kiana Ledé's debut album KIKI. |
| 2021–2022 | Begins individual production partnership with Chelsea Cutler; co-writes and produces on Bazzi's Infinite Dreams. |
| 2023 | Executive-produces Chelsea Cutler's third album, Stellaria. |
| February 2024 | Co-writes and co-produces Artemas's "i like the way you kiss me" with Toby Daintree and Jesse Fink during an LA writing sprint. |
| 2024 | Produces Artemas's mixtape yustyna; joins Nessa Barrett's camp, producing "Passenger Princess" and "S.L.U.T." on Aftercare. |
| 2025–2026 | Continues producing for Artemas on "Southbound"/"test drive" and the mixtape getting up to no good. |
No. Those are different people who happen to share a common name. This entry covers the Los Angeles-based record producer and songwriter credited on Bazzi's, Artemas's, Chelsea Cutler's and Nessa Barrett's catalogs.
Rice N' Peas was White's production duo with Mike Woods, active from at least 2011 through the early 2020s, credited on The Lonely Island's Grammy-nominated "Jack Sparrow" and much of Bazzi's early catalog. White's most recent high-profile credits, on Artemas, Nessa Barrett and later Chelsea Cutler tracks, are attributed to him individually rather than to Rice N' Peas as a unit, but no source has explicitly confirmed whether the partnership is defunct or simply uncredited as a duo on newer releases.
He is credited as a co-writer and co-producer alongside Artemas, Toby Daintree and Jesse Fink. Both Artemas and Daintree have described him as central to the February 2024 Los Angeles writing sessions that produced the song, with Daintree calling him "so efficient that it makes the whole session so easy."
He produced and co-wrote "Passenger Princess" and sole-produced "S.L.U.T." on Nessa Barrett's 2024 album Aftercare. Barrett has said it was their first time working together and thanked him directly in the album's Genius credits, calling him "one of the best collaborators I've ever had."
Rarely, if ever. No long-form interview, podcast appearance or profile centered on White as the primary subject has surfaced across his catalog's history. Nearly everything publicly known about his process and relationships comes through quotes from the artists he has worked with, including Bazzi, Chelsea Cutler, Artemas and Nessa Barrett.
Kevin White's catalog intersects with several other artists profiled on The Ring, including Artemas, whose darkwave-leaning breakthrough he helped produce, Nessa Barrett, on whose Aftercare album he is credited across two tracks, and Chelsea Cutler, whose 2023 album Stellaria he executive-produced. Readers interested in the broader alt-pop and darkwave scene White's more recent work sits within may also find the site's coverage of Artemas's mixtape cycle and the wider darkwave revival useful context.