ĭEAN: No, we never played together much always did our own thing. My sister played piano, my brother played sax, so it was like they all inspired me to play music. Was music always part of your life plan?ĭEAN: Yeah. I kept going to her even when I was like 20, yeah. Ambuhl, for 18 years, something like that.ĭEAN: Not 18 years - like 15. MUHAMMAD: You got into music at what age?ĭEAN: I started playing piano when I was like eight years oldĭEAN: Yeah, I had the same teacher, Ms.
MUHAMMAD: When you say -were you repairing motorcycles? What were you doing?ĭEAN: I raced motocross I raced for Suzuki when I was a kid. Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid. MUHAMMAD: Was music always something that carried away from that? That had to be a difficult situation.ĭEAN: Yeah. And he died when I was a kid, so I was like - I always said I would never work in chemical plants or do any of that kind of s. My dad designed chemical plants for DOW Chemical. What was the background like? What was your childhood like?ĭEAN: I was a DOW Chemical baby. MUHAMMAD: You know what I'm sayin'? The people need to know this because that's - you were born in the South, 1965. The Record 'It Was Like Flies To Honey': 25 Years Of Rap-A-Lot Records
Geto Boys, Mike Jones, UGK - just to name a couple. Over the past 10 years, Dean and Kanye have worked together more and more, until they've reached the point where, Dean says, "Me and Kanye are like a band."ĭean spoke to Microphone Check hosts Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley about playing onstage with Kanye, the best song in the world and his piano teacher, Jane Ambuhl from Lake Jackson, Texas.ĪLI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD: You've worked with a lot of notable hip-hop artists. In 2002, while working on Scarface's The Fix, he mixed a song produced by Kanye West and performed by Scarface, Jay-Z and Beanie Seigel, called " Guess Who's Back." Kanye liked his mix so much, he asked Dean to work on his solo debut, College Dropout. In the early 1990s, he helped create the sound of Rap-A-Lot Records and the bones of Dirty South rap. Producer and engineer Mike Dean has worked with everyone from Kurupt to Devin the Dude, Selena to Z-Ro, Young Jeezy to UGK. Mike Dean (center) backstage during the European leg of the Watch The Throne tour last year.
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