Daddy Kev (born in 1974) is a hip hop producer and recording engineer from Los Angeles, California. He is the owner of Alpha Pup Records. Pitchfork Media describes him as "one of the Los Angeles underground's most visionary producers... His style exemplifies the steady bleeding of hip-hop culture into the more highbrow aspects of art."
Together with Hive and Shaggy, Daddy Kev founded Celestial Recordings in 1998. The label's early records included Phoenix Orion's album Zimulated Experiencez and the compilation Celestial Squadron. Daddy Kev also produced records by Naptron and Alien Nation, most of the songs characterized by fusing rap with sci-fi samples. His work with Awol One on Souldoubt in 2001 saw Daddy Kev return to a more conventional underground hip hop context. During this era, he contributed to a number of genre-defining records including Sole's Bottle of Humans, Myka 9's Timetable, Abstract Rude's P.A.I.N.T., Prefuse 73's Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives and Nobody's Soulmates.