Nikolas Papamitrou, better known mononymously as Papamitrou or by the stage name Nick Papz, is a music producer from Massachusetts. Papamitrou is currently the first signed producer to Meek Mill's record label: Dreamchasers. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Career

Nikolas Papamitrou aka Nick Papz, graduated Husson University with a BS degree in Communications Technology. ^[5] He started a YouTube channel ^[6] at the age of sixteen producing "Meek Mill Type Beats" ^{[7] [8]} which was getting attention and thousands of subscribers. ^[9] Papamitrou started communicating with well known producers such as Sap (producer) and Jahlil Beats. ^{[10] [11] [5] [12]} He was originally discovered through Instagram by a fan tagging Meek Mill's manager on his beat video. ^{[13] [14]} Papamitrou got signed to Dreamchasers soon after that. Papamitrou became notable after releasing his beat tapes " Apollo" ^{[15] [16]} and " Cuatro" ^{[17] [16]} on SoundCloud and MyMixtapez, which set him off with the help of Meek Mill promoting him. ^{[16] [15] [17]}

In February 2017, Papamitrou released two major songs on Don Q's project "Corner Stories ^{[18] [19]}" named "Don Vito, ^{[19] [20] [21]}" & "It's All Love ^[22]" with a feature from Dave East. ^{[23] [24] [25] [26]} He then released a song with Meek Mill on the Meekend II ^[27] mixtape called, "Young Nxxx Dreams, ^{[28] [29] [30] [31]}" (ft. YFN Lucci & Barcelini). ^{[32] [33] [34]} On July 21, 2017, Meek Mill released the Wins & Losses ^[35] album worldwide with three major songs produced by Papamitrou. ^[36] He produced the intro called " Wins & Losses", ^{[3] [4]} " Connect The Dots" ^{[3] [4] [37]} (ft. Yo Gotti & Rick Ross) and " These Scars" ^{[3] [4]}(ft. Future & Guordan Banks). The Wins and Losses Album debuted at No. 3 ^{[38] [39] [40] [41]} on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 102,000 units ^{[42] [43] [44]} in album sales on its first week. The album remained at No. 3 for the second week. ^{[44] [42] [45]} Papamitrou explained how he got involved with Meek Mill and the Dreamchasers in an interview ^[46] with My Mixtapez ^[47]

Papamitrou also works with many other artists such as Dave East ^[48] (Album Karma2 ^{[49] [50]}) Don Q on his song Trap Phone ^[51] and mixtape Corner Stories. ^[52]

In November 2018, Meek Mill released his new album Championships that made #1 on the Billboard 200. ^[53] Papamitrou produced four songs on that album of which three made it ^[54] to the Billboard Hot 100. ^[55] The album was also nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2020 Grammys. ^[56]

In 2021 Nik was part of Meek's new album: "Expensive Pain" and also continue to expand and being part of other artists' projects such as Lil Baby and Snoop Dogg.

Mixtapes

• Historic (2013) ^[57]
• Trapademikz (2016) ^[58]
• Apollo (2016) ^{[59] [60]}
• Cuatro (2017) ^{[61] [62]}
• 7 Series ft. Jahlil Beats ^{[11] [10]}

  

• Corner Stories ^[52]

Production discography

References