9th Wonder Biography

Born Patrick Denard Douthit in Winston-Salem NC 9th Wonder is a Grammy Award-winning producer DJ college lecturer and social activist. Since his introduction to hip-hop in 1982 9th has been immersed in the music and culture of the art form while gaining experience in music theory throughout middle and high school. 9th attended North Carolina Central University where he decided to pursue a career in music. He along with Phonte Colerman and Thomas Jones (Rapper Big Pooh) formed the hip-hop trio Little Brother in 1998. The group released the critically acclaimed album The Listening which received four mics in Source Magazine.
9th was then tapped to produce a track on Jay-Z's Black Album which became his first major label placement. From there 9th Wonder produced three songs for the R&B Super group Destiny's Child on the album Destiny Fulfilled (Girl Is She The Reason Game Over) won a Grammy with Mary J. Blige for her album The BreakThrough (Good Woman Down) Erykah Badu's Honey and 20 Ft. Tall on the album New Amerykah 1 and 2 Ludacris' Do The Right Thang a song featuring Common and Spike Lee and David Banner on the album Death Of A Popstar. 9th also worked with Drake for the second time on his sophomore album release. 9th also has three albums with MURS an emcee that hails from MidCity CA in which all three albums have received critical acclaim.

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