The name Lex Luger has been synonymous with Hip Hop over the past year and a half. You know the songs – Waka’s “Hard In The Paint,” Rick Ross’ “B.M.F.” and Kanye and Jay-Z’s “H.A.M.” – but for those wondering how he came to be one of the genre’s most sought after producers, the New York Times put together a rather lengthy, yet entertaining and informative read on the (still) 20-year-old by the government name of Lexus Lewis.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, inside Black Label, a bunkerlike recording studio in Hampton, Va., Luger crumbled little brussels-sprout buds of marijuana into the husk of a Swisher Sweets cigar. He had his black Compaq laptop jacked into the mammoth recording console on the other side of the room and was using an old copy of Billboard as a mouse pad, moving his mouse back and forth on Enrique Iglesias’s face, clicking through folders. Because he turns out music at an assembly-line clip (while really, really stoned), sometimes he’ll forget about a beat entirely until it turns up on the radio as somebody’s new single. But these days he’s trying to stay organized, to keep track of which rappers he has sent which beats to: he’s got a folder for Drake, and one for DJ Drama, and one for 2 Chainz, and one for Gangsta Boo.

Those interested in reading Alex Pappademas’ exposition of Luger can click here. Make sure you have about 20 minutes to spare.