Tyshane Thompson, currently known as Beam and formerly Tyshane and Elite, is an American hip hopproducer. In addition to his solo work, he formed the production duo 808&Elite with Matt Massaro. He is the son of dancehall and gospel reggae pioneer Papa San. According to Thompson's father, he started producing at age ten. He first received notice when he produced for Andy Mineo on the tracks "Young", featuring KB, and "Michael Jackson", featuring Thi'sl, Rich Perez, R-Swift, and Bubba Watson, from the albumFormerly Known in 2011. In 2012 he produced the highly popular, Jamaican-tinged song "Black Rose" by Lecrae on the mixtape Church Clothes. He also appeared in the final episode of the web-seriesSaturday Morning Car-Tunez, created by Andy Mineo, where he helped remix the Puff Daddy song "It's All About the Benjamins". On July 6, 2012, Thompson and Matt Massaro, under the name 808&Elite, released the single "Me Monster", featuring Andy Mineo, from their upcoming beat-tape, Diamonds x Pearls. The tape was made available two days later for free download exclusively through the Christian hip-hop website Rapzilla. Thompson's talent was praised by critics when he and ThaInnaCircle produced the bass-heavy, East Coast style, reggae and dancehall-influenced song "Violence" by Lecrae from the Grammy-winning album Gravity, released on September 4, 2012. In October, 2012, Thompson competed at the second Annual Rapzilla.com Beat Battle at the 2012 Flavor Fest. Thompson, his father Papa San and brother Tyrone Andrew, are working on a collaborative project. 808 & Elite now produces under Street Symphony's Track or Die label. In addition to his work with his father and brother, Lecrae, and Andy Mineo, Tyshane has produced, both independently and as part of 808 & Elite, for artists such as 2 Chainz, Yo Gotti, Tedashii, Tracy T, SPZRKT, GABRL, and KIDD.
;Papa San - My Story Tyrone Andrew - "Encamp" ;Lecrae - Church Clothes Andy Mineo - Saturday Morning Cartoons Tyrone Andrew - "Love or Hate" ;Lecrae - Gravity DJ Official and Alex Medina - Gravity The Remix EP KIDD - "Fireworks"
2013
;Beleaf - Theo's Gift ;Gabe - "Yikes" ;Andy Mineo - Heroes for Sale ;SPZRKT - The Loner ;SPZRKT - "Best of Your Love" ;Social Club - Summer of George ;KIDD - "Murder My Flesh" - ;KIDD - Murder My Flesh ;Papa San - One Blood ;SPZRKT - Lucid Dream ;Lecrae - Church Clothes 2 ;Man Praisin Hard - Critical Condition: The Mixtape, pt. 2
2014
;GABRL - "Starters" ;J Mynor - "New Me" ;KB - 100 ;The Rise - Casual Tuesdays ;D. Tropp - Away from Home ;Surf Gvng - Surf Gvng ;Ernest Rush - STRT TRBL
Note that this includes tracks produced only by Matt Massaro aka 808
2011
;Andy Mineo - Formerly Known
2013
;Andy Mineo - Heroes for Sale ;116 Clique - "Now They Know" ;Lecrae - Church Clothes 2 ;SPZRKT - Lucid Dream
2014
;Bishop - Rose Gold ;Thomas McLaren - "Us" ;GABRL - "Better " ;GABRL - "Wake Up" ;2 Chainz - Freebase ;Tracy T - The Wolf of All Streets ;Tedashii - Below Paradise ;HillaryJane - Sticks and Stones ;Wave Chapelle - Only the Beginning ;Lecrae - Anomaly ;Paul Morris - Square One ;Spencer Kane - Runway ;Ernest Rush - STRT TRBL
2015
;Thomas McLaren - "Us" ;Yo Gotti - Concealed ;Neek Bucks - Here For a Reason Vol. II "How Can I" ;Genra - "The Notebook" ;Genra - "Black Holes" - produced by 8X8 ;KB - Tomorrow We Live ;GABRL - Here's a Mixtape ;Reconcile - Catching Bodies ;2 Chainz - Trapavelli Tre
2016
;Reconcile - "Cross on Me" ;2 Chainz - Felt Like Cappin ;SPZRT - "Hesitate" ;David Banner - "Black Fist" ;Trav - Push3 ;G Easy - "So Much Better" ;Gabrl - "Too Much Left" ;Zoey Dollaz - October ;2 Chainz - "Let's Ride" -
