In 2007, 9th Wonder left Little Brother and spent his time both producing tracks for the likes of Erykah Badu and Sean Price, and teaching a class on hip-hop at NCCU and collaborating with Boot Camp Clik's Buckshot for an album called The Formula, which was released in the spring of 2008. Blige followed, as well as another Little Brother record, 2005's Minstrel Show, the same year his proper solo debut, Dream Merchant, Vol. Work with Murs, Buckshot, Jean Grae, Destiny's Child, and Mary J.
Their first album, The Listening, was released in 2003, and 9th Wonder began to receive further attention after he remixed Nas' 2002 album, God's Son, naming it God's Stepson, as well as the track "Threat," which he produced on Jay-Z's seminal The Black Album.
In 1998 he met classmates and future bandmates Phonte and Big Pooh, and with them soon formed Little Brother. Initially, while a student at North Carolina Central University, Douthit planned on saving his money for the producer's favorite tool, the MPC, but after a friend showed him that he could make the beats he wanted on a computer, he decided to use that instead. As a child he performed in the school band and also played keyboards at home. Blige, and many other icons of hip-hop, R&B, and mainstream pop.ĩth Wonder grew up Pat Douthit in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Over the years, 9th Wonder has worked on hits with Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu, Mary J. His beatmaking style, marked by smooth soul samples and huge basslines, would grow to define entire eras of hip-hop. roots of releasing unofficial remixes to becoming one of the more influential producers in rap. Hip-hop producer/rapper 9th Wonder grew from his D.I.Y.
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