Ash Riser

While focusing on music production after Ash's first band "P!stol P!stol's" disbandment, Riser got a phone call from his longtime high-school friend Ali, better known as MixedByAli, the in-house mixing engineer of West Coast indie record label, Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE). Ali asked Riser to come by the studio and record vocals with an artist he was producing for named Kendrick Lamar, a Compton-based rapper. Lamar and Riser had an instant musical synergy, with Lamar finding Riser's voice to be very original and complementary to his own. Lamar appreciated that Riser used his voice as a musical instrument to add more soul to tracks. In 2009, Riser was featured on Lamar's debut extended play (EP), The Kendrick Lamar EP, on a bonus track titled "Determined". Lamar and Riser collaborated again in 2010, for Lamar's Overly Dedicated project, appearing on the song "Barbed Wire". In 2011, Riser was featured on Lamar’s Section.80 project, lending his vocals on the tracks, "Keisha's Song" and "Ronald Reagan Era". Ash then began collaborating with Lamar's Black Hippy cohort and TDE label-mate, Ab-Soul. Riser was featured on "Beautiful Death", from Ab-Soul's 2012 project, Control System. In 2013, Riser signed a management contract with Israeli music producer Borgore's record label "Buygore", as well as his management company, Buygore Management. Around that time, Riser also signed a production deal with Chest Rockwell Entertainment, founded by Greg Ogan and Spencer Neezy. On April 22, 2015, Riser released an EP titled Modern Medicine, which he mixed, mastered, produced and recorded by himself.In June 2015, when asked if he was still with Buygore, Riser responded with: "not since 2014"

Ash Released three E.P.'s IN 2016 "HOME", "LATE PRAISE" and On June 22, 2016, Riser released his third EP that year, titled R.I.S.E., which includes productions from 808 Mafia, Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital, TM88 and Zaytoven.
He was also one of the vocalists who contributed to kendricks "To Pimp A Butterfly" grammy award winning album, and did vocal features for hip hop artist such as "JAY-IDK" "WAXX" "OG MACO" and "Curtis Williams" of "TWO-9"
To name a few.

In spring of 2017 Ash is scheduled to release his debut solo album, with features from Quentin Miller, Mike G, Papo, OverDoz, Noel Bonham, and Love Mansuy. Production credits include himself (obviously) Left Brain, Tae beast, JAWA and xavior scott.