The Legendary Traxster

The Legendary Traxster (a.k.a. Sam Lindley) is an American songwriter / producer. He currently produced the hit single, "My Chick Bad" by Ludacris featuring Nick Minaj on the album "The Battle of The Sexes". Traxster's production on "My Chick Bad" helped land Ludacris a 1 album on the Billboard 200. Success is not new to Traxster, he earned a Grammy Nomination for his work with Mariah Carey, co-writing and producing the track, "One and Only" on her 2005 released album, "The Emancipation of Mimi" which sold over 10 million albums worldwide.
In 2009 Traxster re-united with Twista to produce 6 songs on the Billboard 1 Rap album Category F5, including the hit singles "Wetter" and "Yellow Light" feat
uring R. Kelly. The chemistry with Traxster and Twista continues with them working on Category F6 slated for release the summer of 2010.
A native of Chicago, he is best known as producer for the platinum-selling rapper Twista and the famed rap group Do or Die, for whom he produced several albums including the platinum-selling Picture This. Picture This is notable for introducing Twista to the mainstream, particularly on the album's blazing centerpiece "Po Pimp". Traxster also produced Twista's Platinum selling "Adrenaline Rush" in its entirety. Traxster is credited for creating the Midwest / Chicago sound: slow, dark, bass heavy grooves, with wild drums and running hi-hats, to match the triple time rhyme patterns of the rappers. He soon spread his sound nationally producing songs for artist around the country. T.I., Lil Bossie, Cam'ron, Scarface, Bun B, Mystikal, E-40, WC, C-Bo, Static Major, Tech N9ne & The Outlawz have all used Traxster production.



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