1. Drumma Boy's mother, Billie Baker Gholson, was an accountant who worked as a part-time opera singer and was the first African-American to graduate from Rudi E Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis.
19 Facts About Drumma Boy
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Drumma Boy's father is an emeritus of the Memphis Woodwind Quintet and a soloist in the United States Navy Band.
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Drumma Boy's paternal grandfather was a high school principal and has a high school named after him in Washington, DC The rest of his extended family including grandmothers and aunts were musicians and taught music in the schools.
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Drumma Boy says he had a recorder in his hand at age 3 and a clarinet at age 5.
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Drumma Boy's father was instrumental in teaching him about traditional classical music yet it was his mother that introduced him to Curtis Mayfield and 1970s rhythm and blues.
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Drumma Boy was offered a position in the Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as being offered college music scholarships.
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Drumma Boy spent much of his spare time outside of classes on the keyboard and drum machine making hip hop beats in his room.
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Drumma Boy's father challenged him, in an effort to convince him to return to college, to earn $100,000 within 12 months to prove his independence.
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Drumma Boy appeared on a segment of Bravo'sThe Real Housewives of Atlanta while making beats for cast member Kandi Burruss as well as appearing in the studio during an episode of Monica's BET reality series Still Standing.
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In November 2009, Drumma Boy released his music video "Dis Girl" shot by Mr Boomtown, the first single off his mixtape Welcome II My City, which received millions of hits on Worldstarhiphop.
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Drumma Boy has appeared on Good Day Atlanta, Good Morning Memphis, CBS News Channel 9, BET and MTV.
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In December 2013, Drumma Boy was commissioned to create film scores for the independent film Blood First for NaRa Films and OY.
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Drumma Boy created film scores for movies Chapters and Holla 2.
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Drumma Boy primarily uses an Akai MPC 4000, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Roland TR-808 and electronic keyboards manufactured by Roland, Korg and Yamaha.
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Drumma Boy is known for the origination of extending sounds at the end of a verse and his use of a rise effect before the beginning and end of every verse and hook.
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Drumma Boy utilizes his ad-lib of "Yeah Boy" and a young reverbed female voice saying "Drumma Boy" before the beginning of a song.
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Drumma Boy is known for combining classical music chords with urban hip hop street sounds, and for his adherence to the Atlanta trap music subgenre.
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Drumma Boy won "Best Indie Producer of the Year" consecutively at the 2009,2010 and 2011 Southern Entertainment Awards.
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Drumma Boy received a nomination for "Producer of the Year" at the 2008 Ozone Awards and at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards.