Jahaan Akil Sweet also known as J. Sweet, is an American musician, record producer and songwriter and pianist from Jacksonville, Florida. He has produced for a variety of artists including Kehlani, Drake, Eminem, The Carters, Ty Dolla $ign, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and Taylor Swift . He previously also served as a producer for Kehlani's in 2015. He is best known for co-writing and producing Kehlani's 2015 mixtape, You Should Be Here and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's Drowning.
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| Birth name | Jahaan Akil Sweet |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
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He has been nominated for the Grammy awards five times, which he won twice. His works The Carters's Everything Is Love and Jon Batiste's We Are won Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album award 2019 and Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2022, respectively.
Sweet was born and raised in North Jacksonville, Florida. He began playing piano at the age of six, and jazz piano by the age of eleven. After attending high school at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Sweet moved to New York City to attend Juilliard School's jazz studies program.[2] In 2015, he was named a Juilliard Career Advancement Fellow.[3][4]
In an interview with The Recording Academy, Sweet revealed that he met Kehlani at MBK Studios in New York while still attending school. From there, he produced two songs, "Get Away" and "How We Do Us," on Kehlani's project Cloud19. Sweet later flew back and forth between New York and Los Angeles to work with Kehlani on her subsequent mixtape, You Should Be Here, before graduating from Juilliard in 2015.[5][6]
In 2016 and 2017, Sweet produced tracks for numerous of notable albums including Ty Dolla $ign's Campaign ("Zaddy" and "$"), A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's The Bigger Artist ("Drowning"), Kehlani’s SweetSexySavage ("Keep On" and "Personal"), Aminé's Good For You ("Veggies", "Slide" and "Heebiejeebies"), and Lana Del Rey's Lust for Life ("Summer Bummer").[7]
In 2018, Sweet worked with Boi-1da to co-produce songs for Drake (Scorpion; "8 Out Of 10", "Final Fantasy", and "Ratchet Happy Birthday"), Sweet's favorite rapper;[8] The Carters (Everything Is Love; "Friends" and "Heard About Us"); and Eminem (Kamikaze; "Lucky You").[5]
Apart from wining the Grammy awards, Sweet has been featured in Forbes 30 under 30 2021 list.[9]
In 2016, Sweet's mixtape Kehlani's You Should Be Here received a nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.[10] In 2019, he was nominated for three Grammy awards and won "Best Urban Contemporary Album" for The Carters's Everything Is Love.[11] In 2022, he won Grammy's Album of the Year award for his album, Batiste's We are.[12]
| Year | Nominee/Work | Award | Result |
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| 2016 | You Should Be Here (Kehlani) | Best Urban Contemporary Album | Nominated |
| 2019 | Everything Is Love (The Carters) | Best Urban Contemporary Album | Won |
| Scorpion (Drake) | Album of the Year | Nominated | |
| "Lucky You" (Eminem)[13] | Best Rap Song | Nominated | |
| 2022 | We are (Jon Batiste) | Album of the year | Won |