Tay Keith

CTL-E-5759 · Person · musician · 1996–2026

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07024 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5759.

Tay Keith, born Brytavious Lakeith Chambers on 20 September 1996 in Memphis, Tennessee, was an American record producer who defined the Memphis trap sound of the late 2010s. He began making beats at about fourteen, posting to YouTube and DatPiff, and built a long partnership with fellow Memphian BlocBoy JB. He produced BlocBoy JB's "Look Alive" featuring Drake and Drake's "Nonstop" in 2018 and co-produced Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode"; he also produced Beyoncé's "Before I Let Go" for Homecoming. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in December 2018 and founded the Nashville label and studio Drumatized. He was found dead in his Nashville apartment on 18 June 2026, aged 29, during a police welfare check; Tennessee officials later confirmed an accidental drug overdose as the cause.

The record

• Also known as: Brytavious Lakeith Chambers, Brytavious Chambers

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Tay Keith entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5759 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 337 (Music Producers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American producer (Memphis). Vital status: DECEASED — 18 June 2026, Nashville, Tennessee (Tennessean, citing Metro Nashville Police; USA Today cause confirmation, September 2026). Tribute treatment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Eleven Billboard Hot 100 top-10 productions and four No. 1s, including "Sicko Mode" and "First Person Shooter" (MusicRow, June 2026); two Grammy nominations for Best Rap Song — "Sicko Mode" (2019) and "Rich Flex" (2024). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5759-tay-keith.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Relationships

• Drake — collaborated with
  Tay Keith produced BlocBoy JB's "Look Alive" featuring Drake and Drake's "Nonstop" (2018).
• Travis Scott — collaborated with
  Tay Keith co-produced Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" (2018).

Sources

• The Tennessean (18 June 2026) — death in Nashville, age 29; birth date and place; career record — https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/06/18/tay-keith-dead-2026/90614388007/ (primary source · build store)
• USA Today (17 September 2026) — Tennessee officials confirmed accidental drug overdose as cause of death — https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/09/17/tay-keith-cause-of-death-revealed/90615634007/ (build store)
• MusicRow (June 2026) — eleven Billboard Hot 100 top-10 productions and four No. 1s; Drumatized founder — https://musicrow.com/2026/06/hit-producer-drumatized-founder-tay-keith-passes/ (build store)

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