Soundtrakk

Rudolph "Rudy" Lopez (born February 27), known professionally as Soundtrakk, is an American nine-time Grammy Award-nominated record producer from Chicago, Illinois. He is the longtime collaborator of Lupe Fiasco since 2006 with the single, "Kick, Push." Soundtrakk assisted on most of Fiasco's studio albums, excluding Tetsuo & Youth. He was the producer for all tracks on their 2020 collaborative extended play Tape Tape, the 2022 studio album Drill Music in Zion, and the unreleased records Samurai and Skulls.
== Background ==
Concerning the song "Dumb It Down," Soundtrakk was initially on the hook."Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". Twitter. April 3, 2018. The day before the release of his seventh studio album Drogas Wave, Fiasco took to Twitter, "Before things get crazy around here...let me first send big love to my brother @Soundtrakk. Without you there is no lupe fiasco. You bring the best out of me and you put your foot all over this album. Responsible for yet another masterpiece. Always an honor. Enjoy it bro 🌊""Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco)". Twitter. September 20, 2018.
To Billboard in 2022, Fiasco told them:
Soundtrakk did "Kick, Push" and "Superstar." I always say we're like Batman and Commissioner Gordon. He's been pivotal to me. Whenever we get together, it's always something special. People just may think you need to do music to impress other people, but Soundtrakk is one of those dudes that will make a record that I'll love that nobody else likes, and he's one of the only people that can do that. Then, we can also turn around and sell millions of records and make classics. 
He almost passed away from COVID-19. His mom passed away and it hit me hard. It was a moment I felt like I almost lost a homie. I just doubled back down saying we need to grind. I got albums with Soundtrakk. Whole albums with us just rocking. He'll send me 100 beats out the blue and I'll start slowly rhyming on records. I thought we needed to start finishing these joints and putting them out, so I did Drill Music In Zion in three days. He got his production team and he's the maestro. It's just nasty the level he's at as a producer. He can do everything. 
The next couple of projects you going to get from me in a serious way, he's going to have a heavy hand in. He's going to be in there running the full staff on the music side. The plan is learning that lesson from almost losing him. It's like, "Let's put out as much music while we can."Lamarre, Carl (June 16, 2022). "Black Music Month: Lupe Fiasco Talks Dodging the Sophomore Jinx with 'The Cool'". Billboard.
== Discography ==
=== Extended plays ===
Title 	Details
Tape Tape	
* Released: October 2, 2020
* Label: 1st & 15th, Thirty Tigers
* Format: Digital download, streaming
=== Production discography ===
Track(s) 	Year	Credit 	Artist(s) 	Album
03. "Mean & Vicious" 	2006	Producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Fahrenheit 1/15 Part II: Revenge of the Nerds
Tracks 2, 4, 7-8, 14 	2006	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Tracks 2-3, 5-6, 9-10, 13-14, 16, 19	2007	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
03. "Fah Real" 	2008	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Chill's Spotlight, Vol. 2
05. "Lasers Manifesto (Interlude)" 	2009	Producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Enemy of the State: A Love Story
14. "Shining Down" 	2011	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Lasers
09. "SLR (Super Lupe Rap)" 	2011	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Friend of the People: I Fight Evil
02. "Strange Fruition" 	2012	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1
Tracks 1, 3, 5 	2017	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Drogas Light
"Running from President" 	2017	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	rowspan="3"
"SLR 3 (Round of Applause)" 	2017	Producer 	Lupe Fiasco	
"Pearl Harbor" 	2018	Producer 	Lupe Fiasco	
Tracks 2, 6-8, 11, 15, 20-21 	2018	Songwriter producer additional production	Lupe Fiasco	Drogas Wave
"BBQ Chicken Thighs" 	2020	Producer 	Lupe Fiasco	rowspan="2"
"Steve Jobs: SLR 3 1/2" 	2021	Producer 	Lupe Fiasco	
All tracks 	2022	Songwriter, producer 	Lupe Fiasco	Drill Music in Zion
== References ==
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