Dead Executives to Help Produce New J-Kwon Album

If you are a Hilary Duff fan you probably know who the Dead Executives are by now. The songwriting team better known as Benji and Joel Madden wrote and produced the 3 new songs on Hilary's Most Wanted album - Wake Up, Beat of My Heart, and Break My Heart. John Feldman from the band Goldfinger is also part of the Dead Executives, but he never gets any credit for some reason.

Anyway, the Dead Executives are now branching out into Rap and Hip-Hop. It is being reported by Chart Attack that they are helping produce the new J-Kwon album. You probably remember J-Kwon from his massive club hit "Tipsy" which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. His album "Hood Hop" peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It still isn't clear how many songs the Dead Executives will be producing for the new album.

Surprisingly this isn't the first rap experiment for the Maddens. The twins are apparently good friends and neighbors with The Game, and they produced a track with him that will appear on the new Good Charlotte CD.

I like that the Dead Executives are experimenting with different types of music. Many people don't like that they worked with Hilary Duff, and think that she should go back to her old songwriting teams, but I kind of like the Dead sound. They wrote the Ashlee Simpson song "Harder Everyday", which is probably my favorite Ashlee song, although that isn't saying much. I hope that they are a part of Hilary's next album, which I'm sure they will be.


Joel Madden shops with The Game and posse in Hollywood.
Thanks to Nikkie (HilaryMadden) at HilaryFan for the scan.