In an interview with DJBooth, North Carolina-born producer 9th Wonder spoke about getting discovered by Masta Ace in the early days of the Internet.
“Masta Ace was listening, at my brokest times he was listening,” 9th Wonder says. “A lot of people like to credit Jay Z for putting me on to everybody, but they don’t really factor in the Masta Ace component and they should because he was the one. I was working with Little Brother and the Justice League at the time, but you’re not really proven until you work with somebody outside of your team. Masta Ace was the one that said, ‘I like this kid.’”
9th Wonder, who recently detailed a post-A3C festival police encounter, gave the sit down interview as part of the A3C Pro Audio Conversations series.
In January, 9th Wonder presented a music compilation from his label, Jamla Is The Squad. He said that he practices his leadership through his studio endeavors.
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“My studio is one big armory,” 9th Wonder says. “Jamla comes off the heels of Little Brother. We were the first Hip Hop group to pop on the Internet.”
In addition to his label, 9th Wonder has also been a college professor at institutions such as Duke University and Harvard.
“My studio is an everyday teaching ground of what to do and what not to do,” he says. “That’s an every day process.”
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