9th Wonder and Kendrick Lamar have previously collaborated on Wonder’s Warren G and Mars-featured 2011 track “Enjoy.” On top of producing, Douthit is also a music professor and lecturer, teaching classes and researching at universities like Duke and Harvard. He started his music career as the producer of the North Carolina group Little Brother and made his breakthrough after releasing an unofficial remix project of Nas’ 2002 album, God’s Son.
Cole, Destiny’s Child, and more, the man also known as 9thmatic is well-respected in the world of underground hip-hop. For more on the impending album, you can also check out the Vlad Sepetov-designed cover art.Īlthough 9th Wonder has produced for a number of major artists like Drake, JAY Z, J. In anticipation of the release of DAMN., we’ve created a concise guide for all the featured artists, producers, instrumentalists, writers and songwriters on the project. And when Lamar quietly shared the title, artwork and tracklist for the album during the early hours of April 11, a few surprise guests not featured on the previously uncovered composer credits were revealed, including Rihanna and KAYTRANADA (who revealed he would be singing on the track using Auto-Tune.) Shortly after Kendrick announced the release date and iTunes link for the project on April 7, a Reddit user was able to uncover most of the composer credits for all 14 of the tracks by pre-ordering the album.