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Adam "Doseone" Drucker was born in Nampa, Idaho on April 21, 1977. A product of two well intentioned
hippie parents whose extremely imagined relationship was unfortunately a half fusion of everything they had feared in their own mothers and fathers respectively. Needless to say the couple did not last, but the son of a one-time glass-blower managed with his ten-mile-a-minute wit, one of a kind voice, humor and imagination. His coming-of-age years were spent bouncing around
Philadelphia and
New Jersey perfecting his MC-battling skills. By the time he moved to
Cincinnati in his late teens, he'd developed a
unique style and approach that has been unmatched in that circuit since. Even though his talent landed him in a few final-round showdowns with
freestyle legends like
Eminem,
Juice, and members of
Freestyle Fellowship in Cincinnati's annual "Scribble Jam," Dose found battling ultimately unsatisfying. Sitting in his college classes, he no longer found himself daydreaming about battle comebacks, instead he started focusing more on poetry and began applying it to musical form.
Dose became familiar with
Jel through jel's radio partner, Kevin Beacham. But it wasn't until 1998 when some tapes were exchanged through mutual friend,
Mr. Dibbs, that the two realized their potential together. Soon after a few phone conversations, Jel started making frequent sojourns from Chicago to Cincinnati to record with dose. The duo's first couple of tracks ended up on dose's first self-released record
Hemispheres (1998). Then from April of 1998 to January 1999 they solidified their chemistry, putting the tracks together that would end up on
Themselves's
Them. That same Spring dose and jel, along with
Slug of
Atmosphere and
Sole and
Alias of
Live Poets began recording
Deep Puddle Dynamics's
The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? Out of that record, the concept of
anticon was somewhere born - whose founding dose and jel would become an integral part of, later bringing them both to the
Bay Area.
dose has been involved with numerous other projects such as collaborations with
Boom Bip,
John Herndon,
Prefuse 73,
Buck 65,
Aesop Rock, sole of anticon, and
Hood. He's also the front man in the band
Subtle and is an essential ingredient in
cLOUDDEAD with
Why? and
Odd Nosdam.
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