# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/l-e-s
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:04:14.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/l-e-s"
name: "L.E.S."
slug: "l-e-s"
description: "Leshan Lewis, professionally known by his pseudonym L.E.S., is an American DJ and record producer commonly associated with New York rapper Nas, with whom he grew up in the Queensbridge housing project. His first production credit landed on Nas' popular song \"Life's a Bitch\" from Illmatic album in 1994. The following year saw him producing his first charted single, AZ's \"Sugar Hill\" from Doe or Die. Since the mid-90's, Lewis has produced songs for hip hop acts such as Shyheim, 50 Cent, Mobb Deep, Royal Flush, LL Cool J, Big Pun, Capone-N-Noreaga, MC Lyte, Flipmode Squad, Rahzel, Benzino, Cassidy and Cormega, Fat Joe, as well as R&B singer Joe, and German rappers Kool Savas and Azad."
tagline: "American hip hop record producer"
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: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.94
  momentum:             1.582405063291139
  historical:           8.756409333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/167542"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84.%D8%A7%D9%89.%D8%A7%D8%B3."
    title: "ال.اى.اس."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.S."
    title: "L.E.S."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.S._(music_producer)"
    title: "L.E.S. (music producer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.S."
    title: "L.E.S."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.S."
    title: "L.E.S."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.S._(%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC)"
    title: "L.E.S. (音楽プロデューサー)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.S."
    title: "L.E.S."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B4%9B%E6%9D%89%C2%B7%E5%A4%A7%E5%8D%AB%C2%B7%E8%B7%AF%E6%98%93%E6%96%AF"
    title: "洛杉·大卫·路易斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eebc696c-f861-4e92-8916-28fc86d727ea"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922723"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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