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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 an...