Julian Martrel Mason (born March 17, 1992), better known under the pseudonym LilJuMadeDaBeat, is an American record producer and songwriter, most known for his work with 2 Chainz, Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion.
[3] He subsequently joined his DeSoto High School band as a percussionist, graduating in the top 10 percent of his class, and attended University of Houston for a period after being accepted into their architecture program.
[4] Wanting to realize his dream of making music instead of architecture, Mason's past experimentation with FL Studio was met with success, as Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane utilized one of his productions to create "With My Pistol", later placed on his 2013 mixtape World War 3, Vol.
[2] In 2017, Mason was contracted by label 1501 Entertainment to become their in-house producer, working with potential signee Megan Pete, then an up-and-coming rapper from Houston.
[2][6] Mason next worked with fellow Houstonian Beyoncé, who would use one of his production loops to complete the first 36 seconds of "Thique", a record from her 2022 album Renaissance that was initially created almost a decade earlier from a skeleton produced by rapper-producer Hit-Boy.