D-Nice
Sign in to saveAlso known as Derrick Jones
Derrick T. Jones (born June 19, 1970), better known by his stage name D-Nice, is an American DJ, record producer, and rapper who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. He discovered KRS-One in 1988, landing him a deal with Jive Records.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Identity
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1955-03-11
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 35,810
- Total plays
- 148,488
Tags
D-Nice is the stage name of beatboxer, rapper, producer and photographer Derrick Jones (born June 19, 1970 in Bronx, New York), who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. As a solo artist, his most successful song was 1990's "Call Me D-Nice", a self-produced track built around an organ sample from The Turtles' "Buzz Saw." D-Nice was also known as "The Human TR-808", and through his beatboxing skill and friendship with DJ Scott La Rock, would join the B
via Last.fm · D-Nice
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Malinda Williams
- Occupation
- photographer
- Genre
- hip-hop
- Official website
- d-nice.com
- Image
- D-Nice, 2008.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- D-Nice
- date of birth
- 1970-06-19
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- web feed URL
- d-nice.com/blog?format=rss
- partner in business or sport
- KRS-One
- member of
- Boogie Down Productions
- birth name
- Derrick T. Jones
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Life and career
- Discography
- References
- External links
Derrick T. Jones (born June 19, 1970), better known by his stage name D-Nice, is an American DJ, record producer, and rapper who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. He discovered KRS-One in 1988, landing him a deal with Jive Records.
== Life and career == Jones was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. He later moved to The Bronx as a teenager. At age 15, it was there that he met Scott La Rock and later formed Boogie Down Productions along with KRS-One in 1986. In his early career with the group, he was given the nicknames as "the Human TR-808" and "the 808". D-Nice also gained significant popularity when he produced the song "Self-Destruction" for the Stop the Violence Movement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “D-Nice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.