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Super-Producer Mike Dean on Kanye West’s ‘Chaotic’ ‘Donda’ Sessions and Vibing With Lana Del Rey

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Kyle Eustice Mike Dean is fielding texts from Madonna, promoting his latest solo album, “4:22,” nursing a joint and trying to answer interview questions.

But there’s beauty in the chaos. Variety’s Hitmakers Producer of the Year does it so effortlessly — like a modern-day maestro conducting his own symphony — as he tries to remember the news of the various records he’s worked on.In March came word that “For the Night,” the posthumous record by  Pop Smoke, the Brooklyn drill rapper killed in a 2020 shooting, had been certified four-times-platinum.

Dean, a co-producer on the song, was tasked with adding the “flutes, bells and whistles” to the ominous track. “It was a little weird,” he admits, of the circumstances. “I didn’t know him.

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