Excel Beats Places Original Music in Showtime's “The Chi”

Excel Beats has placed original music in Showtime's The Chi — season 7, episode 10, “Tha Block Is Hot” — the acclaimed drama from creator Lena Waithe following interconnected lives on Chicago's South Side.

The placement continues a long relationship between Excel and Showtime — his music previously appeared across multiple episodes of Shameless — and adds another current, culture-defining series to a sync catalog that spans more than two decades of television and film.

For Excel, sync placement is a core discipline, not a side quest: over 30 TV and film credits since 2004, from network reality to premium cable drama to feature films for Sony and Lionsgate.

Artists working with Excel on production, mixing, and mastering tap into that same ear — records built to translate everywhere, from streaming playlists to the screen.