Xaphoon Jones is 22 years old and from Philadelphia.

He's perhaps most known for producing the early mixtapes and debut album of rapper Chiddy Bang, but his unique production style has slowly filtered onto our radar through records from rappers like Big Sean, Dice Raw (of The Roots), Big Boi, Theophilus London, & Wiley. Outside of rap, he's produced 1 Ellie Goulding song and worked on official remixes for Gorillaz & Everything Everything.

This year, he'll be bringing his own style of inventive rap beats, punctuated with percussion and gale-force synths.