The producer whose fingerprints are all over some of the last decade's biggest trap hits is bringing his own headlining show to San Francisco. Pi'erre Bourne, born Jordan Timothy Jenks, will perform at The Fillmore at 8 PM next Wednesday, touring behind his fourth solo studio album, Made in Paris.
From Behind the Boards to Center Stage
Jenks, who claims Columbia, South Carolina, as home, spent his formative years splitting time between South Carolina and Queens, New York, before eventually moving to Atlanta, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He studied sound engineering at SAE Institute and briefly studied graphic design before landing an engineering job at Epic Records, the paper reports. Along the way, he interned under producer DJ Burn One and, per the same account, met the son of music executive L.A. Reid, connections that helped push him toward the beatmaking career that would define him.
It was an uncle who first introduced Jenks to beatmaking software, planting the seed for a sound built on bouncy trap beats layered with what the Chronicle describes as elements of 1990s video game-like synths. He has cited Wiz Khalifa, Kid Cudi and T-Pain as influences on that playful, melodic style.
The Beat That Became a Meme
Pi'erre Bourne produced Playboi Carti's 2017 hit Magnolia, the song that introduced his signature sound to a mainstream audience. Woven into nearly every one of his beats is his producer tag, “Yo Pi'erre, you wanna come out here?”, which became an internet catchphrase after Magnolia's success. According to REVOLT, the tag is sampled from a 1990s episode of the WB sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which Jamie Foxx calls out to a fictional French chef.
Magnolia peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Bourne's production on 6ix9ine's Gummo climbed to No. 12 later that year, per Wikipedia's entry on the producer. Those two records catapulted him into demand among major hip-hop acts, and the momentum kept building: Bourne co-produced Drake and Playboi Carti's “Pain 1993,” which peaked at No. 7 on the Hot 100 in May 2020 after appearing on Drake's mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes. That same March, he reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Producers chart on the strength of four tracks he produced for the deluxe edition of Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake.
Grammy Recognition and a Label of His Own
Bourne's résumé extends beyond trap mixtapes. He won a Grammy Award in March 2021 for his production work on Kanye West's Jesus Is King, which took home Best Contemporary Christian Music Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, according to HotNewHipHop. He is also the founder and CEO of SossHouse, an independent label he launched in partnership with Interscope Records in 2017, which now represents artists including Chavo, Sharc and Frazier Trill, per Audible Treats.
His own catalog as a solo artist has found an audience too. His second studio album, The Life of Pi'erre 5, debuted at No. 35 on the Billboard 200 in June 2021 with roughly 16,000 first-week equivalent units, featuring guest spots from Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert.
A Parisian Detour Lands at The Fillmore
Made in Paris, the 17-track album fueling this tour, arrived in June 2025 after Bourne released its lead single, “Blocs,” earlier that same month. The Chronicle reports the project was inspired by a trip to Paris and leans into Parisian imagery and song titles throughout, while still retaining the playful, melodic production that has defined his sound for years.
Bourne will bring that album's music to San Francisco next Wednesday, performing at The Fillmore, located at 1805 Geary Blvd. Tickets start at $45.50. The historic venue holds a general admission standing capacity of roughly 1,150 to 1,200 patrons, according to Time Out, making it an intimate stop compared to the arena-sized crowds his production work has reached on the charts.
Concertgoers walking into the show will step into a tradition that dates back to 1960s promoter Bill Graham, who began greeting patrons with fresh apples in the lobby and sending them off with custom graphic print posters, a practice Hoodline detailed in its report on the venue's marquee. It's a distinctly San Francisco welcome for a producer whose beats have already reached millions of ears through other artists' hits, long before this Wednesday marks his own name on the marquee.
