DosiaDidTheBeat — Producer Interview

What is your stage name?

DosiaDidTheBeat.

What is your background?

Born at Oakland Kaiser, raised in South Berkeley, California. Trials include the same shit everybody in the area dealt with growing up.

Who musically inspired you to become a performing artist?

Artists: E-40, UGK, Mac Mall and Mac Dre. Producers: Tone Capone, RobLo, One Drop Scott, Lev Berlak.

What is your most recent single to date? Tell us about it.

I recently had the pleasure of producing “I Can See You”, which is a song from The Jacka & B-Town MAC featuring J.Blakk. We recorded it around December ’14 at The Legendary Grill Studios in Emeryville (shoutout Lev Berlak) during a pretty heavy run I was doin with Jack.

Any project you’re working on?

Currently wrapping up Joe Blow’s “You Should Be Paying Me Too”, which is the sequel to his debut in 2011. I produced every track on the project and it’s a real honor for me just to be able to be a part of such an iconic release from Oakland’s hottest rapper.

What is your most favorable moment in music?

Without question it was in 2011 when Lil Rue headlined the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma and went on stage with Joe Blow and Young Lox to do a song called “Recognize”, which was a song I produced and they had done a video to with like 100k views on it at the time. Anyway, it’s kind of a trance-like slower record and when it came on the crowd roared hella loud and then I started seeing lighters going up in the air, and they moved all together in waves like an ocean or something — it was crazy. It’s the first time I ever saw so many people moving like that in unison to music I had made. And watching people I considered my close friends stand on stage in front of that and perform — it was amazing, [I] get the chills for real.

Where can people find you?

In the producer credits on real Mob music projects, and @dosiadidthebeat on Instagram and Twitter.

Any last words?

The loss of The Jacka has been real hard on those close to him and, obviously it goes without saying, his family. I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with Jack in the last couple years, and I can honestly say, for me, he’s the greatest rap artist to ever get down, period. This is for a number of reasons too deep to go into here, but I got one story that I think summarizes who [he was] for me:

2010, I’m at [the studio with] Jack working on this album we did called Broad Daylight [and there’s] this young unknown artist there asking him for game on how he could get himself on in the music biz. Jack sat in the kitchen area with that kid all night. Told him all he needed to do; told him since he had already pressed up real retail CDs he would be [a] star fa sho in Atlanta and New York. Told him it would be easy. Told him he was guaranteed to be a superstar — all he had to do was believe in himself. I remember thinking, wow, this kid really made an impression on Ja[ck for him to be] telling him all this good shit. Fast forward, 2015: I’ve now seen Jack give that same speech and take that same time out for dozens of unknown artists asking him the secret to success in the music business.

He told me I was in his top 3 favorite producers in the Bay, and even though I KNOW there’s way more producers doper than me that he’s worked with, and that he’s probably just trying to motivate me… it still feels hella good to hear that from an artist like Jack. His entire energy was to motivate all of us, his people, to do [more], think bigger, to believe. [The] way he could gain respect from the coldest gangster on the mainyest block, then hit up some college party and have all the rich kids totally comfortable talking to him — he truly was a God amongst [men]; everywhere he went there [was] good times. Our entire circle was drawn together by Jack. Hus, Feddy, Blow, Cellski, Roblo, Bo Strangles, Lee Majors — I fuck with all of them because of Jack. He brought us together and taught us a lot. His legacy should be that of a teacher and the Greatest Rap Artist to Ever Live. I feel beyond blessed to have been counted amongst his friends and collaborator[s], and I’m grateful for every single time I told my chick fuck no I can’t come home, I’ll be in the studio all night and maybe all day tomorrow and all night again — PERIOD! WE MISS YOU FOREVER BRODY. #RIPTHEJACKA