D-Nice
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D-Nice | ||
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Born | June 19 1970 (age 36) | |
Origin | Bronx | |
Genre(s) | Hip-Hop | |
Occupation(s) | Rapper | |
Label(s) | Jive Records | |
Website | D-Nice's official web site |
D-Nice is the stage name of rapper and hip hop musician Derrick Jones (born June 19, 1970 in Bronx, New York), who began his career in the mid-1980s and was long associated with the group Boogie Down Productions. His most successful song was "Call Me D-Nice", released in 1990, built around an organ sample from The Turtles's "Buzz Saw."
D-Nice was also known as "The Human TR-808" because of his beat boxing for the group Boogie Down Productions. The first and only commercially released album from D-Nice was entitled "Call Me D-Nice", and was under the Jive Records label.
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