Ken "Duro" Ifill

Ken "Duro" Ifill is a Trinidadian-American mixing engineer and record producer and record executive. He is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Desert Storm Records. In 2011, he was nominated for Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards for "Empire State of Mind".^[1] Since 2018 he operates as vice president and A&R of Republic Records.^[2] Attended Five Towns College, Long Island where he secured his 1st Internship at Platinum Island Recording Studios, Downtown Manhattan. Since 1998, as a record producer, he produced tracks for the likes of Noreaga, Jay-Z, Fabolous, Foxy Brown and Pop Smoke.

Ken Ifill
Birth name	Kenneth Ifill
Also known as	Duro Supa Engineer The Chairman
Born	Mineola, NY (Long Island)
Genres	Hip hop R&B
Occupations	Record producer mixing engineer A&R record executive
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Desert Storm

Career

Early career

In the mid-1990s, Duro served as an intern engineer for Q-Tip during the recording of Mobb Deep's The Infamous album.^[3] His first credits as mixing engineer were on Gravediggaz debut album.^[4]

Desert Storm Records

In 1997, Duro, DJ Clue, and Skane Dolla (DJ Clue's manager) developed Desert Storm Records. The label's first major artist is rapper Fabolous. In September 2001, Fabolous released his debut album Ghetto Fabolous, charting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. The label was previously distributed through Interscope, Elektra, Atlantic and Sony. The label is currently distributed through Def Jam.

Discography

Partial production discography

List of production credits (excluding executive producer credits), showing selected information

Year	Song	Artist	Album	Notes
1998	"Thugs R Us"	DJ Clue?, Noreaga	Streets Is Watching Soundtrack	produced w/ DJ Clue?
	"Mathematics (Esta Loca)"	Noreaga	N.O.R.E.
1999	"Dope Man"	Jay-Z	Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter	produced w/ DJ Clue? & Darrell "Digga" Branch
	"Pop 4 Roc"	Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek, Amil		produced w/ DJ Clue?
2000	"Gotta Be a Thug"	Fabolous	DJ Clue Presents: Backstage Mixtape (Music Inspired by the Film)
2001	"Back 2 Life 2001"	Jadakiss, Mary J. Blige	The Professional 2
	"Jay-Z Freestyle"	Jay-Z
	"Fantastic Four, Pt. 2"	The Lox, Cam'ron, Nature, Fabolous
	"What the Beat"	Method Man, Bad Meets Evil
	"Interlude"	Lil' Mo
	"Fuck a Bitch"	Snoop Dogg, Kurupt
	"Live from the Bridge"	Nas
	"So Hot"	Foxy Brown	The Professional 2 and Broken Silence
	"Bathgate Freestyle"	Bathgate	The Professional 2
	"I Don't Care"	Capone-N-Noreaga
	"Dangerous"	Lady Luck
	"Phone Patch"	Ty Shaun
	"Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)"	Mariah Carey, Mystikal	Glitter	produced w/ DJ Clue? & Mariah Carey
	"Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life"	Mariah Carey
	"Click & Spark"	Fabolous	Ghetto Fabolous	produced w/ DJ Clue?
	"Keepin' It Gangsta"
	"Ride for This"	Fabolous, Ja Rule
	"Trade It All"	Fabolous, Jagged Edge
	"Take You Home"	Fabolous, Lil' Mo
	"Gotta Be Thug"	Fabolous
	"If They Want It"
2003	"Up on Things"	Fabolous, Snoop Dogg	Street Dreams
	"Into You"	Fabolous, Ashanti, Tamia
	"Throw Back"	Fabolous
	"Keepin It Gangsta (Remix)"	Fabolous, Styles P, Jadakiss, M.O.P., Paul Cain
	"Trade It All (Part 2)"	Fabolous, P. Diddy, Jagged Edge
2020	"Something Special"	Pop Smoke	Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon	N/A

• Ken "Duro" Ifill at Album Credits
• Ken "Duro" Ifill credits. AllMusic.