Here's the first song from my new continuous compliation album: iMAKE GOLD!
The inspiration behind this album iMAKE GOLD! comes from a personal mantra I had during COVID year (2020). To motivate myself to create, I would tell myself to "Make Gold!" It’s a reminder to me that life is precious and every moment in the studio is an opportunity to create something valuable.


I'm setting off this journey with a self-titled track I produced and rhymed on back in 2021. When I have alot on my mind, I usually look to write it down in my journal. Sometimes my journal entries turn into songs like this one. In this journal entry, I was reflecting on dealing with dealing with changes in life from summer to summer.
I felt like this was a good starting point.
Here we go.
Let's Make Gold.


Produced, Written, and Mixed by 14KT
for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)

iMAKE GOLD!

14KT - iMake Gold!

Alive and Well

See Dee - 2Manytimes (See Dee remix 2)

Smokebreak. 🚬

This Beat is part of the beattape // drops 8/8

REVOLVER OCELOT

See Dee - Slidin

Track 5 off my project iMAKE GOLD!

I met SHAD at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s Playlist Retreat (real dope guy!). I was familiar with his music before and loved how he rhymed. SHAD is always posting freestyles on Instagram of him just rhyming over instrumentals. There was this one verse he wrote over Kardinal Offishall's "Ol' Killin Time" beat that inspired me. While listening to SHAD's effortless flow and how he described and displayed dope emceeing simultaneously, I heard the whole beat in my head immediately. I started building the drums first, then listened to his vocals over just the drum track. Chopped up a sample then sent him a demo. SHAD loved it and wanted to recut his vocals to the beat. The track that you hear now became the first joint we ever made together —which led to me producing SHAD's "REEL SPEAKERS EP".
(Please check that out too if you haven't 🔊)

First word he recorded over my beat?
“Classic.”
Shout out to the brother SHAD! 🙏

Wake up, iMAKE GOLD!

Thank you for tuning in and rocking with the tracks so far!
Much more music to come.

Watch the iMAKE GOLD! album journey unfold at
Karatgoldmusic.com


Lyrics: SHAD
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)



Thee ft. SHAD

from last night... 


resampled some old drums of mine

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my back!_86

Track #8 off my continuous compilation album, iMAKE GOLD!


July 2024, last year,
We lost Sonya Massey to the hands of the police.
Amidst processing her tragic killing, I was building with my brother Tall Black Guy about expressing ourselves more in the moment as artists and challenging ourselves. TBG challenged me to make a beat using 3 James Brown records because I never sampled him before. It was mostly because I heard soo many classic Hiphop and R&B records that flipped James Brown since the 80s.


✂️ Challenge accepted.

My aim was to chop those records to fit how I was feeling about Sonya Massey's story in that moment. TBG put me up on Jermaine Holmes after sharing some work he did with him. I wasn't familiar with Jermaine's work at the time, but I knew he had an ill voice and that he sang background for D'Angelo on the Black Messiah tour. Days after I made this beat, Jermaine posted he was open to do features on his IG. I sent this beat to him, without even mentioning what inspired it.

KT : "Man I think you could do something powerful to this joint. Something the people really need to hear in these crazy days."
This record was Jermaine's response.

R.I.P Sonya Massey

released July 29th, 2025
Produced by 14KT
Lyrics : Jermaine Holmes
Mixed: 14KT for Karat Gold Music (ASCAP)
Mastered: Aria Mastering

Land of the Free ft. Jermaine Holmes

Ya Feel Me

Produced By Jourdain Casper.


Boom Bap 💥 With Soulful Trap🔥


The Official Ghosty Ghost 👻




Ghosty Ghost - Target Run

Ypsilanti, Michigan’s own golden child, Kendall Tucker, bka 14KT, is a multi-talented Artist/Producer/DJ. His musical roots came from growing up singing in the church choir. It was there and by studying his parent’s jazz and soul records, along with piano and upright bass lessons, Kendall learned the fundamentals of music.

14KT got his start as 1/7th of this mighty Hip-hop collective, The Athletic Mic League. He started out as an emcee, inspired by the sounds of Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Gangstarr, A Tribe Called Quest and Outkast. Finding it hard to get instrumental beats, KT started using the “Pause/Play/Record” method, by looping breaks on cassette tapes so the crew could rap over them. 

14KT’s solo career began in 2008. After a rich history with AML, he entered and won his first beat battle competition, in Red Bull Big Tune Detroit. Later that year, he released his debut instrumental LP, “The Golden Hour [Soundtrack].” The Golden Hour made its mark appearing on many year-end “top albums” lists. Okayplayer said “this is the sort of striking project that can singlehandedly create an artists following.” And so it did.

14KT is the last Big Tune national champion, which he went on to win in 2010.
He’s worked with the likes of Aloe Blacc, Black Milk, Bun B, Danny Brown, Elzhi, Jay Electronica, JMSN, Masta Ace, Mayer Hawthorne, Legendary Motown Funk Brothers guitarist Dennis Coffey and many others. His music was featured in the DVD for Michael Rapaport’s A Tribe Called Quest documentary, “Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest.” Live, he’s rocked with the Stones Throw crew, at Low End Theory, SXSW, on tour with Mayer Hawthorne, Slum Village, and across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia.

To date, 14KT has released seven solo albums, as well as his collaborative Hip-hop album, "Takin Ls" with emcee Ozay Moore,  R&B/Soul album, “Saturn Return” with singer/songwriter AB, and “The Big Knock”, together with Mayer Hawthorne as the “Beat Wave” group Jaded Incorporated [Universal Republic/Casablanca Records]. Jaded Incorporated was born out of their mutual adoration for the Post-Punk and New Wave music of the early 1980′s, and Ghettotech music in the 90′s Detroit scene.

14KT is currently revving up to release another duo collaboration album with Michigan rapper Ro Spit, entitled "RSXGLD" to be released in 2017.

For Beat inquiries/Booking/etc 
Contact: KaratgoldMusic@gmail.com
www.i4KT.com
www.Karatgoldmusic.com

Thee ft. SHAD

14KT

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