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Kasim Keto

American record producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ17486547
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Kasim Keto is an American music producer. He has collaborated with artists such as Roc Marciano, and in 2013 signed to Babygrande Records, releasing several singles. His debut album with Babygrande, Long Cars Rides, was released in December 2013. Clash Music gave it a score of 8/10, with reviewer Joe Rivers writing, "This largely instrumental record... evokes the golden age of hip-hop...however, nightmarish and unsettling sounds and samples ensure 'Long Car Rides' always remains the right side of Daisy Age nostalgia." In 2014, Keto had three collaborative singles featured in the film Kid Cannabis.

Early life

Kasim Keto was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, both immigrants from Jamaica, separated when he was small, and at about the age of six, he spent time with his mother in Alabama and Florida, before returning to live in the New York City area with his father. He predominantly grew up in Queens, New York, specifically the multi-cultural neighborhood of South Jamaica.

He has credited his father, who is from a West Indian background, with playing a wide variety of music while Keto was growing up. This exposed Keto to genres as diverse as reggae, rock, and disco.

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