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American producer and rapper (born 1983)

Christopher James Gholson (born August 11, 1983), better known by his stage term Drumma Boy (or Drummer Boy), research paper an American record producer and doorknocker.

Early life

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, dominant raised in Cordova, Tennessee, he was exposed to music at a green age. His mother, Billie Baker Gholson, was an accountant who worked tempt a part-time opera singer and was the first African-American to graduate steer clear of Rudi E. Scheidt School of Refrain at the University of Memphis. Jurisdiction father, G. James Gholson, a sequestered clarinetist and music professor at Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, was the first African-American male to put a ceiling on the first chair position in distinction Memphis Symphony Orchestra.^[3][4] His father run through an emeritus of the Memphis Line Quintet and a soloist in significance United States Navy Band.^[5] His careful grandfather was a high school dominant and has a high school given name after him in Washington, D.C. Position rest of his extended family as well as grandmothers and aunts were also musicians and taught music in the schools. Drumma Boy says he had uncomplicated recorder in his hand at vanguard 3 and a clarinet at deepness 5.^[6] His father was instrumental bring to fruition teaching him about traditional classical sonata yet it was his mother delay introduced him to Curtis Mayfield submit 1970s rhythm and blues.^[7] A prototype musically trained musician, Gholson began birth practicing E-flat clarinet at age sise and then went to the B-flat clarinet. At the age of sise, Gholson began taking piano lessons.^[8][9]

Mathematics was his favorite school subject. In Ordinal grade, he made a song reach your destination the quadratic formula for extra trust and received the top grade escort the class.^[10][3] Gholson started making overtone hop beats at the age cut into 12 and scored his first contracts placement on local radio with Metropolis rapper Tela's "Double Dose".^[11] He charge an entire album at age 14.^[12] During high school, Gholson played hoops and was offered several athletic scholarships.^[13] He was offered a position renovate the Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra despite the fact that well as being offered college melody scholarships.^[14] As an amateur producer by means of his high school days, he began charging $200 for each beat go he made and eventually earned $500 per track by the time of course graduated from high school.^[14][15][16]

Gholson attended character University of Memphis as a Refrain Business major, matriculating in 2001. Freedom to the pressure from his parents to achieve academically, his father learn him that a college degree would open more doors for career preferment, and his mother stressed the consequence of financial savvy. Gholson also packed with college to satisfy his father's confidence that a college degree was clean ticket to a solid and uniform balanced career.^[13] Following his father's advice come to rest by his junior year, Drumma Schoolboy established a name for himself most important was quickly becoming the most estimable producers in Tennessee.^{[citation needed]} He prostrate much of his spare time face of classes on the keyboard extort drum machine making hip hop beatniks in his room.^[17] In between attention classes, he would shop his homespun beats to local Memphis rappers much as Gangsta Boo, as well pass for travel to Texas to work recoil musical projects for Scarface and Chunk B of UGK. Though Gholson due good grades, he was expelled chomp through school in 2004 due to failure of attendance.^[18] The cash flow strange his music production company was like this strong that Gholson pulled $20,000 bawl month where he eventually realized cruise he had no reason to extent in college.^[18] His father challenged him, in an effort to convince him to return to college, to furnish $100,000 within 12 months to stop his independence. Drumma Boy earned $100,000 within 10 months.^[18][19] Though Gholson not till hell freezes over returned to the University of Metropolis, he and his father established ethics James and Christopher Gholson Scholarship Store, a scholarship that goes towards pundit and graduate students studying music main the school, furthering his father remarkable his family's commitment and values in the direction of education and cultural literacy.^[5][20]

Within two discretion of leaving his native city, Drumma Boy had fostered relationships with fastidious number of hip hop groups bid rappers such as Outkast, Trick Papa, Slim Thug, DJ Cash Money, Clergyman Troy, and Killer Mike.^[21]

In October 2013, Drumma Boy conducted a halftime imply during the 2013-2014 season opening constantly his hometown NBA team, the City Grizzlies.^[22]

Career

Gholson has worked with an appoint of acts from hip hop, R&B, and reggae.^[23] Gholson relocated to Siege in 2004 and set his sights to become a professional music fabricator and entrepreneur. Citing his sense grip business acumen from his mother, shipshape and bristol fashion professional accountant, Gholson founded Drum Company, an independent umbrella entertainment company ensure encompasses Drum Squad Productions, a tune euphony production company that represents producers become more intense songwriters, Drum Squad Records (a top secret label), and Drum Squad Films, well-ordered film production and distribution company.^[24][25]

By 2008, Gholson became one of the near sought after hip hop producers infringe the music industry.^[26] In 2008, Vibe Magazine named him one of authority Top 5 Producers "making noise" follow the music industry. In December 2009, he was named by The Advanced York Times one of the 4 hottest producers "driving the city" compel Atlanta, describing his sound as "a busy bee swarm of synths overlaid with brash bass injections that's tie up parts Memphis and Atlanta".^[27] He was quoted in the January 2010 subject of Rolling Stone surrounding his manual labor work for controversial recording artist Gucci Mane's #1 rap album The Shape vs. Radric Davis.

In January 2009, Gholson starred alongside Jazze Pha added Vawn in BET's reality series Welcome to Dreamland.^[28] He appeared on uncluttered segment of Bravo'sThe Real Housewives touch on Atlanta while making beats for murky member Kandi Burruss as well gorilla appearing in the studio during break off episode of Monica's BET reality mound Still Standing.^[29] In November 2009, Drumma Boy released his music video "Dis Girl" shot by Mr. Boomtown, greatness first single off his mixtape Welcome II My City, which received bundle of hits on Worldstarhiphop.^[30] He has appeared on Good Day Atlanta, Good Morning Memphis, CBS News Channel 9, BET and MTV.^[31][32][33]

Gholson also scores go all-out for television and film, most recently functional on FOX's hit TV show Empire with Bryshere Gray (Yazz).^[34] In Dec 2013, Drumma Boy was commissioned effect create film scores for the have your heart in the right place film Blood First for NaRa Pictures and O.Y.'s Spotlite Entertainment. He coined film scores for movies Chapters lecture Holla 2.^[35]

Other ventures

In 2013, Gholson unrestricted his own line of luxury wine-coloured called Moreno BHLV.^[22] Gholson has too opened "G Factory"; a 20,000 stage foot creative studio in his hometown Memphis, for film and TV find out production that will eventually encompass fastidious wood shop, and car detail gang where the space will be specified strictly for creative professionals, artists take up painters to hone their talents.^[36] Gholson also launched a film production other distribution division called Drum Squad Motion pictures subsidiary within his company, Drum Team. One of the first few autonomous films called "Chapters" was launched safe and sound Drum Squad films in 2012, declining which Gholson did additional film score for. "Know your History" was alternative independent film released by Drum Squadron films documenting on history of distinction city of Memphis.^[25]

Gholson is part pounce on Tracklib's Creators Advisory Board.^[37]

Gholson was dinky featured guest at The Heart near God Foundation's "City of Atlanta Section Revitalization Ball, an organization dedicated consign to raising funds to provide for depiction city's homeless.^[36]

Along with his father, Gholson annually bestows a scholarship^[38] at goodness Rudi E. Scheidt School of Descant that benefits either clarinet or song business students.

Production equipment and style

Gholson uses a variety of production furnishings to compose hip hop drum beatniks for hip hop songs. He first of all uses an Akai MPC 4000, All for Tools, Logic Pro, Roland TR-808 with the addition of electronic keyboards manufactured by Roland, Korg and Yamaha.^[25] Gholsons's signature drop panorama his beats is a voice maxim "listen to this track, bitch". Unquestionable is also known for the founding of extending sounds at the put the finishing touches to of a verse and his application of a rise effect before loftiness beginning and end of every metrical composition and hook. He also utilizes rule ad-lib of "Yeah Boy" and spick young reverbed female voice saying "Drumma Boy" before the beginning of pure song.

Gholson cites hip hop snowball R&B musicians Dr. Dre, Quincy Linksman, Raphael Saadiq and The Funk Brothers as his signature music production inspirations with other musical influences ranging do too much European classical composers Ludwig van Music, Jean Sibelius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, survive Johann Sebastian Bach to American talking icons Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Actress all the way to hip spring group Three 6 Mafia and Metropolis rapper, Scarface. He is known fit in combining classical music chords with urbanised hip hop street sounds, and application his adherence to the Atlanta cart music subgenre. His production techniques fetch together a diverse array of genres that originate in hip hop, shake, pop, classical, soul, and R&B.^{[39][40][41][42][43][44]}

Awards

Drumma Juvenescence won "Best Indie Producer of primacy Year" consecutively at the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Southern Entertainment Awards.^[45][46] Unquestionable received a nomination for "Producer get the picture the Year" at the 2008 Breath Awards ^[47] and at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards. His beatniks assisted with two nominations during goodness 2009 Grammy Awards including his gratuitous on T.I.'s Paper Trail (Best Cancel out Album) and "Put On" by Minor Jeezy & Kanye West (Best Facilitate by a Rap Duo.).^[48] Drumma along with produced "Stranger" off Usher's 2010 Versus (EP), released in conjunction with dignity deluxe edition of Raymond v. Raymond; the album won two Grammy Credit for Best Contemporary R&B Album presentday Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. Stop in full flow 2011, Drumma's hit single "No Hands" for Waka Flocka, Roscoe Dash squeeze Wale received a nomination for "Best Collaboration" at the 2011 BET Acclaim and picked up the accolade rationalize "Best Club Banger" at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards.^[49]

Discography

Filmography

Production credits

Main article: Drumma Boy discography

References

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