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About Me

My name is Vinny Kumar... I run The AVX Music Group with my business partners Tony Galvin and Foxx and am the General Manager as well as a producer for The Black Mob Group/Kameleons. The Black Mob Group has produced several hit songs for artists including "Shut Up" for Trick Daddy (Atlantic Records), "Baddest B*tch" for Trina (Atlantic Records), "Ballin' Boy" for No Good (Artist Direct), "Oochie Pop" for Mystikal (Jive Records), "You Know Who" for T.I. (Atlantic Records) feat. Travis Barker (Blink 182), "Focus" for Young Jeezy feat. USDA, etc. - and has produced for other prominent artists including Yung Joc, P$C, Cee Lo, Dave Ghetto, Duece Poppi, Lil Scrappy, Basic Vocab, Dynas, Common, Dead Prez, Dirtbag, etc. I work closely with my mentor Teddy Riley on his various projects. I also work at the Keniley Law Firm in Norcross, GA with Scott Keniley.

My Interests

Music Production, Drawing, Airbrush, Film directing/production (...heh, making kung fu movies... and random movie trailers), Martial Arts, Anime, Photography, Video Games...

I'd like to meet:

Intro Sequence for our Kung Fu movie... starring Vinny Kumar and Jeff Wong - "The Way of the Snake"The Crimson Movie Trailer... starring Vinny Kumar, E, AJ Jackson

Music:

Bjork, NIN, N.E.R.D., Burt Bacharach, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beth Gibbons, Joe Hisaishi, David Bowie, Basic Vocab, Tony Galvin, Young Jeezy, Phil Collins, Nirvana, The Killers, Teddy Riley, Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Brazilian Jazz (Astrud Gilberto, Djavan, Walter Wanderly, Joao Gilberto, Gal Costa), Francis Lai, The Carpenters, Kings of Convenience, etc.

Movies:

Seven, The Shining, Amelie, The Professional, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Dancer in the Dark, My Fair Lady, Old Boy, Memento, Akira, Drunken Master 2, Fist of Legend, Ong Bak, Spiderman, X-Men, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Napolean Dynamite, Karate Kid, Back to the Future, Little Miss Sunshine... the list never ends.

Television:

Family Guy, Ranma 1/2, Heroes, Entourage, The Office, Avatar The Last Airbender, 24, Arrested Development

Books:

Rebel without a crew, Hit Men, Def Jam Inc.

Heroes:

Tony Galvin, Jeff Wong, Mom and Dad, Teddy Riley

My Blog

Kameleons + Trillville

Check out the song Jeff and I produced for Trillville entitled "Undercover Lova" on their upcoming album on Bungalo/Universal Records this June.
Posted by Vinny on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:29:00 PST

Don P (Trillville) and Stic.Man (Dead Prez) albums in stores now!!!

Go pick up both albums - Don P ("Target Practice 2") and Stic.Man ("Manhood")... they are available at FYE, Best Buy, ITunes, etc!
Posted by Vinny on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:04:00 PST

Teddy Riley on VH1 Hip Hop Honors

Check out Teddy Riley on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors on VH1 tonight from 10pm-12am with an encore presentation from 12am-2am... yep, yep.
Posted by Vinny on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:40:00 PST

Teddy Riley/Adida Japan Tour

If you are in Osaka/Tokyo Japan, check out Teddy Riley and his group Adida at Billboard Live!Tokyo: 9.27.07 - 09.29.07Osaka: 10.01.07 - 10.02.07
Posted by Vinny on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

Check out "Show It To Me" on T.I. vs. T.I.P.

Check out "Show it to Me" feat. Nelly produced by Tony Galvin of The Black Mob Group on the new T.I. album.
Posted by Vinny on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST

Check out our new song "Focus" on the new USDA album

Check out "Focus" on the new Jeezy/USDA album coming out May 22nd."Focus" (Produced by Black Mob Group) 03:42"White Girl" (Produced by Drumma Boy) 03:55"Get It Up" (Produced by Arnaz 'The Nazty One' S...
Posted by Vinny on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:01:00 PST

To all the people who are trying to add me as a friend...

I am not going to add you unless 1) I know you or 2) you send me some sort of message that tells me who you are...
Posted by Vinny on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:35:00 PST

T.I. mentions Tony Galvin and Black Mob Group on MTV News

Check the link: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1558470&vid=146726
Posted by Vinny on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:25:00 PST

Black Mob T.I./Nelly track a possible single for T.I. vs. T.I.P. album...

Atlanta rapper T.I. tries a little bit of everything on his upcoming album "T.I. vs. T.I.P.," due July 3 via Grand Hustle/Atlantic. The set will feature guest turns by Eminem, Justin Timberlake, R. Ke...
Posted by Vinny on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:13:00 PST

T.I. mentions Black Mob Group in MTV News article today...

"I'm working with everybody who I have an opportunity to work with," he added. "Timbaland, I'm working with Danja [Timbaland protégé Nate Hills] today. Scott Storch, Mannie Fresh, Wyclef .. [Wyclef] c...
Posted by Vinny on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:13:00 PST