R.I.P. Disco D. 1980-2007

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Produced by: Disco D.

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Some shitty news today.

Disco D., born Dave Shayman, former skinny-ass Ghettotech/DJ Assault prodigy turned somewhat successful skinny-ass Hip-Hop Producer committed suicide Wednesday. He was first known as a pioneer in Ghettotech, a mash up of Chicago House music, Hip-Hop, Electro and over the top beat juggling, then after a hook-up landed his CD in the hands of Sha Money XL, he scored a beat, a nice one at that, on “The Massacre”, produced “Turning me on” by Nina Sky, and re-invented himself as a Hip-Hop producer, doing some decent work for Trick Daddy and even my long time rap crush, The Clipse. He was getting nice with it, but, sadly (perhaps even more so than the years of bi-polar depression that finally drove him over the edge) he will probably be remembered as the guy who produced K-Fed’s streaming lump of shit “Popazao” and many other steaming lumps of shit on that album. From a platinum Aftermath album and working with two sexy broads like Nina Sky to K-Fed. I sense a connection.

Well, at least for Dave he can enjoy the afterlife knowing that there is no way K-Fed is getting into heaven. Not if there’s a God.

Read this piece by Josh Glazer @ URB for a good eulogy and some comments by those that knew him.

Link: Hip-Hop Producer Disco D. Found Dead in New York Home

Link: Interview with Disco D. @ CanHead