# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dj-khalil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:12:09.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dj-khalil"
name: "DJ Khalil"
slug: "dj-khalil"
description: "Khalil Abdul-Rahman Hazzard, professionally known as DJ Khalil, is an American music producer and DJ from Los Angeles. The son of NBA player Walt Hazzard, he signed with rapper Dr. Dre's record label, Aftermath Entertainment, as in-house talent in 2001. Since then, he has co-produced the Billboard 200-number one albums Recovery (2010) and The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013) by Eminem, I Decided (2017) by Big Sean, Donda (2021) by Kanye West, and Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers (2022) by Kendrick Lamar, among others. Furthermore, he has been credited on the Billboard Hot 100-top 40 singles \"The Man\" by Aloe Blacc, \"Kush\" by label boss Dr. Dre, \"Survival\" by Eminem, and \"Hurricane\" by West and the Weeknd. As an instrumental artist, he formed the hip hop duo Self Scientific with Chace Infinite in 1994, as well as the group The New Royales in 2008, which includes Liz Rodrigues, Erik Alcock and Chin Injeti."
tagline: "American record producer and DJ from Washington"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dj_khalil.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1973-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.13
  momentum:             23.36629968404509
  historical:           11.22581733333333
  currentAttention:     5.2
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دي جي خليل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دى جى خليل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Khalil"
    title: "DJ Khalil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9989dd93-13d8-4249-99c6-db0aa2ff50d0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q246929"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump