Flashback to 1985: Three teenage boys from New York by the names of DJ Scott LaRock, KRS-One, and D-Nice are trying to get their rap group Boogie Down Productions off the ground. Founding member LaRock must have sensed something special in 15-year-old D-Nice (aka Derrick Jones) when he advised him to become adept at not only rapping, but producing, beatboxing, and more, in case anything happened to one of the members. No one could've guessed LaRock's suggestion would be so sadly prescient: La Rock was murdered just two years after Boogie Down Productions formed, in turn giving birth to D-Nice the DJ. Being part of a rap group at such an young age proved the foundations on which D-Nice's career was built: his love of music and the hunger to be a jack of all trades and a master of all.

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