Production · Performance
L.E.S.
real name Leshan David Lewis
L.E.S. is credited on 116 albums across 595 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1994–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
116
Albums
595
Pressings
4
Decades active
476
In collections
Biography
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Long serving Queensbridge producer.
L.E.S. has worked with Nas, Mobb Deep, Royal Flush and many other rappers, and contributed "Life's a Bitch" to Nas' venerated debut "Illmatic".
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
116 albums · 595 pressings · active 1994–2025
- Production · 884
- Performance · 154
- Other credits · 11
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Chung King Studios · D&D Studios · Battery Studios, New York · Unique Recording
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Illmatic
1994

It Was Written
1996

Stillmatic
2001

Capital Punishment
1998

In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
1997

I Am...
1999

The Lost Tapes
2002

Nastradamus
1999

Big Willie Style
1997

Hip Hop Is Dead
2006

Street's Disciple
2004

Doe Or Die
1995

Nastradamus
1999

If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
1996

Hate Me Now
1999

Pieces Of A Man
1998

Don Cartagena
1998

The Album
1997

Phenomenon
1997

Sugar Hill
1995

Jealous One's Envy
1995

N.O.R.E.
1998

The Essential Nas
2013

Guess Who's Back?
2002
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