Cainon Lamb

Cainon Lamb
Cainon Lamb
Birth name	Cainon Renard Lamb
Also known as	Lamb, Lamb Litty
Born	March 22, 1978 (age 46); Miami, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Pop; R&B; Hip hop; Urban pop;
Occupation(s)	Record producer, songwriter, rapper, hype man
Years active	2004–present

Cainon Renard Lamb (born March 22, 1978), professionally known as Lamb or Lamb Litty, is an American record producer and songwriter from Miami, Florida. He has worked with the likes of Beyoncé, SWV, Missy Elliott, Monica, Keyshia Cole and Jazmine Sullivan.^[1] In 2017, Lamb made his rapping debut on colleague Missy Elliott's single "I'm Better".

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

A native of Miami, Florida, Lamb's involvement with music started in the church, as a drummer in the church band. As a youth, Lamb continued to develop his musical talents and excelled in sports, particularly football. He earned a full scholarship to Florida A&M University and became a wide receiver for the FAMU Rattlers football team.^[2] During his college years, Cainon Lamb was given an MPC aka "Beat Machine" as a gift from his late mother Regina T. Lamb. He utilized his musical background to create music for his local gospel rap group called Against da Grain.

After graduating with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Lamb went on to play professional arena football with the Tallahassee Thunder and Florida Firecats. During his Firecats tenure as a record-breaking wide receiver, Lamb and his team won the ArenaCup Championship in 2004.^[3]

Music career[edit]

In 2004, Lamb's music caught the ear of Grammy Award-winning artist/producer/songwriter Missy Elliott who was given a beat CD through Lamb's affiliation with Elliott's Goldmind artist Lil Brianna. That same beat CD contained a track which became Lamb's first major song placement—American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino's 2004 debut album Free Yourself.^[4]

After retiring from football in late 2005, Lamb and Elliott went on to work with artists that included Monica, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Missy Elliott, Keyshia Cole, Jazmine Sullivan, Trina and Jagged Edge.

In 2007, Lamb produced his first #1 record with Keyshia Cole's Grammy-nominated single "Let It Go". In 2008, Lamb went on to produce "Need U Bad"—Jazmine Sullivan's chart-topping debut single. He also produced "Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles)", the lead single from Jazmine's sophomore effort—Love Me Back. In addition to producing songs on Monica's 5th studio album The Making of Me, in 2010 Lamb produced 3 songs for Monica's 6th studio album Still Standing. While producing Monica's #1 hit single "Everything to Me", Lamb made his television debut on the December 8, 2009 episode of Monica's BET reality television show Monica: Still Standing.

In 2011, Lamb started his own company—Lambo Music Group.^[5]

That same year, he co-produced the track "Countdown" by Beyonce, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Dance Club/Play Songs Chart. In an interview with Leslie Moore, Lamb revealed, "I was in the studio, and I was listening to Boyz II Men. The song, 'Uhh Ahh' starts with a countdown of '10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1'..."^[6]^[7] Lamb added his own touches to the sample and started a beat. Lamb's sent the song over to his publisher Big Jon Platt who played the track for Beyonce. "[Platt] told me Beyonce started bouncing up and down, dancing when the countdown came on. She started dancing, bouncing, moving all kind of ways."^[5]

2017 opened with Lamb making his first rapping debut on colleague Missy Elliott's single "I'm Better".

In 2018, Lamb, also known as Lamb Litty, stepped from behind producing and penning hits for several major artist, he released his own music as a solo independent artist with songs like “Tru Luv”, in which he confesses his love for a woman all while rapping over a beat that is colorful with high energy. With songs like “Ya Birthday” Lamb sings “It’s Ya Birthday” to an uptempo party soulful beat. He flows metaphors like “And now we sip lemonade like Beyoncè” as he gives a nod to the artist's 2016 album Lemonade in which Beyoncè used a piece of a song Lamb produced for her called “Countdown” in the middle of her song called “Hold Up”. All 6 of his songs were released on steaming platforms and received great responses as he continues to build his fanbase as a recording artist.

In late 2019, Lamb moved his production skills over into the Latin music marking with a hit single by Ozuna Feat. Diddy & DJ Snake called “Eres Top”. Lamb and his production partner Bigg D have broken genre boundaries with the hit song sampling “I Need a Girl Part 2” by P. Diddy Featuring from Ginuwine, Loon, Mario Winans and Tammy Ruggeri. This is where the producers made hip-hop/R&B meet reggaeton. The song is the first single on Ozuna’s album Nibiru.

In 2020, Lamb and Bigg D signed new artist Rapper Love, Hip-Hop Miami, and social media star Sukihana under their production company 12th and Collins Ent.

Discography[edit]

2004[edit]

Fantasia — Free Yourself

04. "Selfish (I Want You to Myself)" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)

2006[edit]

Fantasia — Fantasia

08. "I'm Not That Type" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)
10. "Two Weeks Notice" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)
13. "Sunshine" (co-produced by Harold Lilly)

Monica — The Makings of Me

06. "Doin' Me Right" (co-produced by Missy Elliott & Miguel "Pro" Castro)
07. "Raw"

Ruben Studdard — The Return

09. Ain't No Party

2007[edit]

Keyshia Cole — Just like You

01. "Let It Go" (featuring Lil' Kim & Missy Elliott) (co-produced by Missy Elliott) #1 for 8 weeks on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart; #7 on the Billboard Hot 100

2008[edit]

Step Up 2: The Streets (soundtrack)

02. "Shake Your Pom Pom"
08. "Ching-a-Ling" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)

Jazmine Sullivan — Fearless

02. "Need U Bad" (co-produced by Missy Elliott) #1 for 8 weeks on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
08. "Dream Big" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)

2009[edit]

Crystal Aikin — Crystal Aikin

06. "Love Him"

Billy Blue — Trap Certified (mixtape)

22. "Story of My Life"

2010[edit]

Monica — Still Standing

03. "Everything to Me" (co-produced by Missy Elliott) #1 for 8 weeks on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
06. "If You Were My Man" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)
11. "Blackberry" (co-produced by Missy Elliott) [bonus track]

Jazmine Sullivan — Love Me Back

01. "Holding You Down (Goin' In Circles)" (co-produced by Missy Elliott) #3 for 8 weeks on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart
07. "Excuse Me" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)

Flo Rida Only One Flo (Part 1)

09. "Momma"
Puzzle (promo single)

Trina — Amazin'

10. Always (featuring Monica)

2011[edit]

Beyoncé — 4

09. "Countdown" (co-produced by Beyoncé Knowles, Shea Taylor) #1 on Billboard Dance Club/Play Chart

Brianna — Face Off (mixtape)

03 — "I'm Super (Kim)"
05 — "Marilyn Monroe"

Jagged Edge — The Remedy

03. "Baby"
06. "I Need A Woman"

Git Fresh — Eat It Up (mixtape)

04. "She Be Like"

Isaac Carree — Uncommon Me

13. "Navigation"

2012[edit]

SWV — I Missed Us

01 "Co-Sign"
02. "All About You"
03. "Show Off"
04 "Everything I Love"
05. "Do Ya" (featuring Brianna Perry)
06. "The Best Years"
07. "I Missed Us"
08. "Better Than I"
09. "Keep You Home"

Monica — New Life

01. "New Life (Intro)"
05. "Big Mistake"
08. "Until It's Gone" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)
12. "New Life (Outro)"
13. "Breathe" (co-produced by Ray Ray)
14. "In 3D"
16. "Anything (To Find You)" (featuring Rick Ross) (co-produced by Missy Elliott)

Mandy Capristo — Grace

01. "Allow Me"

2014[edit]

Missy Elliott — Block Party

00. "Rather" (co-produced by Missy Elliott)

2015[edit]

Jay Burna — TBA

00. "Mood" (co-produced by Bigg D)

Ludacris – Ludaversal

17. “In My Life" (co-produced by Bigg D)

2017[edit]

Missy Elliott — Single

00. "I'm Better" (featuring Lamb)

2018[edit]

City Girls — PERIOD

02. "Take Yo Man" (co-produced by Bigg D)
06. "Where The Bag At" (co-produced by Bigg D)

DJ Nasty 305 — I Like

00. "I Like (featuring Lamb Litty, Ball Greezy, Tory Lanez & Mike Smiff)"

2019[edit]

PJ — One Missed Call

00. "One Missed Call"

PJ — My Best Life

00. "My Best Life"

Ball Greezy — I'm In Love

00. "I'm In Love"

References[edit]

^ "Cainon Lamb". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
^ "Complete Attack". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
^ "Ten years later, Florida Firecats still celebrate title". The News-Press. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
^ Moore, Leslie. "Cainon Lamb: FAMU Alumnus Becomes Successful Producer". Leslie Moore. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
^ ^a ^b "With Grammy Nominations for Work With Missy Elliott, Lamb Sets Sights on Producing Entire Project". You Know I Got Soul. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
^ Moore, Leslie. "Cainon Lamb: FAMU Alumnus Becomes Successful Producer". Journey Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
^ "Song Stories Beyonce "Countdown"". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved 2012-09-16.

[1] "Cainon Lamb". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-02-04.

[2] "Complete Attack". tribunedigital-sunsentinel. Retrieved 2016-02-04.

[3] "Ten years later, Florida Firecats still celebrate title". The News-Press. Retrieved 2016-02-04.

[4] Moore, Leslie. "Cainon Lamb: FAMU Alumnus Becomes Successful Producer". Leslie Moore. Retrieved 2012-09-17.

[auto-5] "With Grammy Nominations for Work With Missy Elliott, Lamb Sets Sights on Producing Entire Project". You Know I Got Soul. Retrieved 2012-09-16.

[6] Moore, Leslie. "Cainon Lamb: FAMU Alumnus Becomes Successful Producer". Journey Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-09-16.

[7] "Song Stories Beyonce "Countdown"". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved 2012-09-16.

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