Producer from Cornelius, North Carolina who worked primarily for Jive in the 1990s.
In September 2024, Smith was charged with music streaming fraud in connection with a scheme to create hundreds of thousands of songs with artificial intelligence and use automated programs called “bots” to stream the AI-generated songs billions of times. According to the indictment, he fraudulently obtained more than $10 million in royalty payments through his scheme.
United States