Verse Simmonds: "I Have A Few Sextapes..." (EXCLUSIVE)

What would the hip-hop game be without dope beats for rappers to spit on? Or any genre of music for that matter? 

For every hot song, there's an artist that delivers the heat, a songwriter whose words speak to the fans and a producer that puts heavy work into the beat.

Verse Simmonds is swiftly moving up the ladder in the songwriting and production world, now proving that the man behind the sounds can be the man on top of it. From the Virgin Islands to the soundboards, there's no stopping this man once he's at work on a beat.

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As one-half of the Jugganauts production team along with partner Shame "Sak Pase" Joseph, the proud Caribbean native has been hard at work, recently produced two tracks on Watch The Throne and Rihanna's Loud hit "Man Down," on top of Verse recently releasing his second mixtape, The Sextape Chronicles 2.

Check out GlobalGrind's sit down interview with the man behind your favorite dubstep and Throne music.

See what the '80s baby had to say about being his own competition like fellow Virgo Beyonce, making the soundtrack to a sextape and Jay-Z's influence on Kanye.

Global Grind: You produced before you started your solo musical career. When did you start producing?

Verse Simmonds: I’ve been songwriting and producing officially as the Jugganauts, which is me and my partner Sak Pase, since ’03, so we’ve been doing it since then. It’s just been a ride man, it’s been 8 years and it’s finally starting to really pay off.

How have you held on to your Caribbean background in your music production and songwriting?

I think it helped that both of us have a Caribbean background, he’s Haitian and I’m from the Virgin Islands, so I think it’s something that we can’t really even help, it’s what we hear. And it’s how we hear it, and how we deliver it I think, is our biggest factor. It’s all based on the fact that we have a Caribbean background and the music we grew up listening to, from the Bob Marleys and the different dance hall artists such as Sean Paul and Shaggy, all of those people. And then you mix that up with the mainstream R&B culture that we’ve been listening to all our lives from Will Smith and Babyface, and in hip-hop the Jay-Zs, the Kanyes. It just all comes together and we can kind of make our own sound with it.

Do you have a relationship with Roc City? They’re really big on just keeping it Virgin Islands.

Very Virgin Islands. Yes I do, we’ve been best friends since the seventh grade.