D-Dosia Biography
I made my first beat when I was about 9 years old on a Casio keyboard. It had two tracks, a drum line and a piano, and it was the dopest thing I’d ever heard in my life. I didn’t make another one until I was 15 in a “digital music” class in high school. The first day we were allowed to use the midi workstations I created a beat in about 11 minutes. When the instructor came to my table and heard what I’d done he did didn’t believe it was mine, he said “What disk did you find this on? This is one of my Advanced Digital Music 2 students.” That was when I knew I had an ability, and in the years following I hustled, scraped and scratched to progress as a beat maker in every way possible.
I began pursuing music as a career seriously when I was 17 years old. I teamed up with a friend of mine whose father ran a studio. Pops would toss his son old equipment and we’d go to town trying to create. Around that time my childhood friend, B-Town M.A.C., was paroled from prison and after recording what we felt was solid material we decided to found a record label with very little knowledge of the industry. So we hit the bookstore. Bought every title about “how to release your own records” and started purchasing recording and production equipment as we went. During a two year stretch, through networking and various contacts, the label I started with B-Town, “Town Records”, recorded songs with many known West Coast artists such as Mac Dre, Keak Da Sneak, Suga Free, Rappin-4-Tay, Bad Azz(DPG), B.A.(3X Krazy), Mob Figaz, Little Bruce & Dru Down, most of which I did production on originally or have since done remixes on. This was also when I was introduced to Tone Capone, a legendary Bay producer, and pulled out my industrial sized sponge so I could soak up as much of that fabled slap-craftsmanship game as possible. He, in my opinion has produced virtually every major hit to come from artists in the bay that are not E-40 and Too Short. Not to mention his work with Tupac and Scarface is classic. I learned a lot from Tone.
In 2001 I started my own record company (Game Face Entertainment), and signed two artists I had been interested in for a long time (Chaotic & Che-D-Ness), who formed the group The Aphiliates. Due to personal legal trouble of my own, the album was not released until late 2002, and while the press was small, it had an impact wherever the CD was sold or listened to. We received a lot of positive attention (internet reviews and international sales as far as France and Japan) and were able to book shows easily possibly because of the less aggressive style of music we were doing on that album (remember, Nelly and Ja Rule were hot at the time).
Since then I have concentrated my energy on producing while my associates have progressed to own their own indie labels (MGM, Family 1st, and Town Records is still strong). My goal is just to make good music, I found after all of the hub-bub of running a label the thing that I love to do is make hit records. There’s nothing like walking into a studio with nothing and leaving at the end of a long session with a jewel record on a burnt CD. As if you pulled it right out of the air. Michelangelo said that his sculptures were in the blocks of stone the whole time, he just had to find it and remove the unwanted stone. Music is the same, the songs are all in the air right now, waiting to be made, and my goal is to find them. But only the hits.
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