Lamont Holden (Instructor, “Popular Music Production,” spring 2019), known in the urban music production community as TheLetterLBeats, is a music producer, DJ, podcast host, videographer, social media content creator, sound designer, teacher and audio engineer. He resides in Atlanta, GA, at the pulse of the urban music industry. Holden earned the B.A. from the University of Illinois in 2004 and an M.A. in Teaching & Education at National Louis University in 2011.