No Witnesses

I’m born and raised in Minneapolis Minnesota I pay the drums when I was a shorty I took cardboard boxes and my my first drum set I remember it was my 8th birthday and I was in the far back of my dads truck we were coming back from somewhere for my bday and I was so excited I found a roll of duct tape in the back of his truck I could fix my drums. But when I got home there was a brand new white three piece drum set with a symbol. Shits bringing tears to my eyes lol but I was blown away in 1996 my dad my godmother and my 16 year old cousin Christina were all shot and killed by my godmothers husband triple homicide life stopped for me my mind was just blank I was 10 I needed something just didn’t know what it was but I started beat boxing walking the train tracks home from school I was probably 11-12 my first tape was Warren G  G Funk Era and I listened to that literally since daycare actually so that’s where some of my style might resonate from but I had a beat in my head all day I’d like make beats with my teeth doing school work constantly so during school on the way home from school and at home I was always making beats I never had the courage to rap in front of anyone until I started hustling was too long after that at party’s now when everyone started rappin I’d jump in with a freestyle everyone was jaw dropped. Didn’t know dough had a hidden talent. I met Wank my girlfriend at the times sister’s boyfriend he used to come by my moms where I had a bootleg studio set up where I would rap through headphones shit sounded horrible but hey it worked. A couple years later Wank brought me to a studio it was Platinum Mines Seanassy or Sean Don was the producer there it was a dope set up bug vocal booth 64 track mixing board keyboards beat machines all that when I left there my dream started I came home and drew out the plans of the studio I was going to build when I got the money. My hustle grew stronger and bigger one day I hurt my back lifting weights at school went to the doctor and they caught a glimps of a bone cyst and they had to remove it after surgery I had to do physical therapy and my physical therapist was talking about all this studio equipment he was going to buy even printed out a copy of all the stuff and where to buy it….. I got out the hospital early went to the crib on crutches quickly sold off all my product and went and bought all that studio equipment before he did 😂. He must’ve been pissed lol but first come first serve. It was a apple g4 computer with a Digi 001 rack mount interface double screens and every program and plug in known to man then construction started I was finally building my if you build it they will come studio exactly how I mapped it out from when I went to platinum mine shit I even had my grandfather helping mind you I was doing all this while my moms was at work she didn’t even know I was build that shit lol but I figure if it’s already built what’s she going to do make me tear it down. With everything built for all my equipment I saved enough to get a Korg Triton Extreme 88 key keyboard yo it was the king of boards at that time I had it all the dopest studio with the flows to match a good hustle I kept making music and making music with no return doing shows paying for my spot you know the gimmick sell all these tickets and you’ll get a better spot on the set list still nothing was poppin off I was starting to lose my drive almost so I put down the mic and started hustling full time said I was going to be the biggest drug dealer around shit I wasn’t playin I was driving an S500 Benz Cadillac SLS on 22s and Escalade on 24s I was killin it. That life never lasts forever I got pooped sentenced to 74 months in prison. After all that mess I got out decided to rebuild the studio and make this music shit happen for real and that’s why I’m here now

No Witnesses

John Dough48