Beam Details

Earlier this year in Atlanta, a city already teeming with musical talent, a group of young artists discreetly set up shop to produce a record that would shine a light on the promising South Florida rapper Beam.

The result of that collaboration was shared October 18 in the form of 95, Beam's debut EP. The 24-year-old artist — real name Tyshane Thompson — was born in St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica. Thompson grew up in Broward County and absorbed a heavy dose of musical influence from his father, the Jamaican recording artist Papa San. By the time he moved with his family to Weston at the age of 8, Thompson had begun synthesizing his father's reggae and gospel music with his own interest in South Florida's fast-paced, underground jook music, as well as Atlanta's dirty South rap, EDM, and reggaeton. By the time he was 10, Thompson had begun producing tracks for his dad and himself.

“I got into production heavy," Thompson says before sharing the origins of his artist moniker. "I was trying to create all those sounds at one time. That’s why my name is 'Be Everything And More.'”