YoungKio
YoungKio

YoungKio

AKA: Kiowa Roukema

About YoungKio

Kiowa Roukema, better known by his stage name YoungKio, is a producer from the Netherlands. He is known for his production on “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X.

He started producing in 2016 when a friend gave him a copy of the Digital Audio Workstation FL Studio. Since then he became a type-beat producer (A producer who releases beats that suit a certain artist/artist type), releasing his beats on his YouTube channel, and selling/leasing them through his beat store.

In an interview with Billboard, he stated that this is how his collaboration with Lil Nas X came about, after Nas X bought the beat for “Old Town Road”:

One day, in like December, I was on Instagram, and some girl tagged me in a meme. Someone was dancing with a cowboy hat on, and she tagged me and said, “I hear your tag. I hear your producer tag,” because I sell my beats with my producer tag in it. I listened to the song and it was kinda fire. In the comment section of the meme, somebody said, “What’s the song?” Somebody replied, “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X. I went on SoundCloud and it had like 10,000 streams or something. My name wasn’t on there because when they buy it, they don’t have to credit me.

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