Songwriter

Cardo

Ronald LaTour

Portland, Oregon → Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cardo — Ronald LaTour — is a Portland-raised, Pittsburgh-based producer and writer most associated with the West Coast rap revival of the early 2010s. He came up working closely with Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y and expanded into national rap production from there. His writing favors hazy soul samples, dusty drum programming, and a g-funk-adjacent low end that gives many of his records a deliberately nostalgic quality. Within the Drake catalog his credits surface on cuts that lean into that smokey, mid-tempo template — multi-writer publishing splits rather than solo credits, which reflects the modern committee-style writing model. He is a frequent collaborator with Boi-1da, Vinylz, and others in the OVO production circle. Beyond Drake he has co-written for Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky, Jay-Z, Pusha T, and many others. His name is on the credits for BlocBoy JB's "Look Alive" featuring Drake (2018) and is among the writers associated with the late-2010s Drake run that intersected with Memphis and West Coast production camps. Like most modern Drake co-writers his contributions tend to be slices — a loop, a melodic idea, a drum pattern — rather than the whole song.