NOTTZ FEATURED PRODUCER

Nottz has produced for some of the biggest names in hip hop including Busta Rhymes,Cassidy, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, The Game, Notorious B.I.G., Scarface, J Dilla, and G-Unit. Some of his earliest production work was on the Rawkus Records compilation Lyricist Lounge, Volume One, in 1998. From there he landed three tracks on Busta Rhymes' Extinction level Event LP, after Rhymes stumbled across one of his beattapes.
Like many other hip hop producers to emerge before the 2000s, Nottz borrows samples from old soul records to reconstruct into new beats. West Coast hip hop icon, Dr. Dre, has named Nottz as one of his favourite producers, and has selected him as one of the few guest producers on his much delayed, yet anticipated Detox album.
Nottz also has a group called D.M.P., which stands for "Durte Muzik Prahdukshun". They released a E.P. in 2004 and a mixtape/album on Koch Records, titled Nottz Presents D.M.P., in 2005.
Nottz will release an album with Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall, tentatively titled VATO, meaning Virginia-Toronto.
Nottz will be working on his first solo album this coming year for 2009 Untitled,.

To put it bluntly, Nottz Raw has one hell of a catalog. In a little over a decade the low key Norfolk, Virginia, native has managed to supply backdrops for hip-hop’s most notable names from Busta Rhymes and Method Man to Scarface and Notorious B.I.G. Although a career in production seemed ordained (his father and brothers all dabbled in beat making), Nottz got involved with hip-hop by rapping in lunchrooms and at school talent shows. His flirtation with beats only began because he needed something to rhyme over, so his parents copped him a little Yamaha keyboard with seven seconds of sample time. Every time he used that joint it would overdub whatever he did, but that didn’t discourage the young novice from breaking it out at his first contest where some original beats and borrowed rhymes stole the show.
“Back in elementary school when I had that seven second sampler they had this talent show,” Nottz remembers. “I wrote down the whole rhyme of Grand Daddy I.U.’s ‘Something New’ and did that shit at the talent show. I won and then I did that same rhyme again a couple days later in the lunchroom when this dude Roy wanted to battle me. I lit his ass up with that rhyme.”
After winning the competition and taking out a few more cats with the help of Greg Nice’s verse from “No Delaying the kids thought Nottz was the king of MCing. He continued rhyming, this time penning his own scripts, and making beats borrowing heavily from his dad’s record collection. His pops was a DJ back in the day so there was always mad vinyl around the house. That’s where Nottz attributes his ear for music. Inspiration came in the forms of gospel, rock, country, and even old movies. It didn't matter if the rhythms were from Young Frankenstein, The Mack, Cooley High, Foxxy Brown, or Dolemite, they just had to be funky. With that education in sound, Nottz soon outgrew his first machine and started teaching himself how to use some real equipment.