The Medicine Men, formerly known as Beats by the Pound, is a four-man Hip Hop and R&B platinum-selling remix and production team. The group is composed of the former In-house production team (KLC, Mo B. Dick, Craig B, Odell) for Master P's No Limit Records, as well as some new artists, and was responsible for the production of the majority of the releases from No Limit Records during the days it w
as distributed by Priority Records which includes the production of songs by Master P, Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, Fiend, Mia X and 6 Shot. Since leaving No Limit Records, the group operates under the company Overdose Entertainment. Beats by the Pound transformed No Limit Records from a little-heard underground West Coast label into a Southern powerhouse that sold over 50 million units and was nominated Producers of the Year by the The Source magazine awards in 1999, and ranked #1 in The Source magazine Power 30 producers the same year. The group signed an artist–album deal with Tommy Boy Records in the late 1999. Two years later, the group released its first album, The Actual Meaning—performed by "6 Shot" and released by Street Level and, in 2006, two mixtapes called Overdose Entertainment & The Medicine Men present Live From The Infirmary Vol.1 and Calicoe the Champ, "Ground Hog Day.
