Tay Keith was an expert at creating walls of sound both ominous and energising, having taken the heavy drum ’n’ bass template of trap music and added novel elements to it. On Drake’s “Nonstop”, his beat is sparse and peppered with a smattering of hi-hats. He let playful keys dance up and down the spine of Travis Scott’s “SICKO MODE” and his production on Lil Baby & Gunna’s “Never Recover” is equal parts joyful and ferocious. By the time the Grammy-nominated hitmaker passed away in 2026, at age 29, his career-defining work with hip-hop’s heavyweights proved beyond a doubt that “Tay Keith is too hard”.