Career

Dean was born in Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

 in 1985. Soccer was his passion until he was introduced to American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 hip-hop by school friends. Dean migrated to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 at the age of 17 and instantly began producing music for himself and other artists in the Commonwealth

Commonwealth

Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has sometimes been synonymous with "republic."More recently it has been used for fraternal associations of some sovereign nations...

 of Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. In 2002 Dean met Nod Dred (Drizzymane), the Richmond

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

 artist who would serve as his music industry mentor, Drizzymane introduced him to Street Blaze, a local Virginia production team. It was at Street Blaze studios that Dean would record his 2006 release, Richcity Blues...A Collection of Crunk Hits. The album spawned the regional hit the 4 Door Cadillac. The album performed well independently and is heralded as a classic Virginia hip-hop album. After the release of his debut album Dean moved away from recording and shifting his focus to production and songwriting, this background position prompted rumors that he was retiring from music even before his career got truly started. Dean resurfaced in the summer of 2008 with Time Machine, his biggest single to date (in terms of ring tone sales and digital downloads), and a noticeable shift from the hard-hitting crunk

Crunk

Crunk is a music style that originated in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-to-late 1990s and gained mainstream success around 2003–2004. Performers of crunk music are sometimes referred to as crunksters. An archetypal crunk track most frequently uses a drum machine rhythm, heavy bassline, and...

 anthems found on Richcity Blues. Dean is also taking advantage of the internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 and digital sales as the main outlet for his new music. His forthcoming album will be digitally released in the summer

Summer

Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice...

 of 2009 featuring two tracks with T.I.

T.I.

Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. , better known by his stage name T.I., is an American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author. He is also the founder and co-chief executive officer of Grand Hustle Records....

 protege; soul crooner Governor

Governor (singer)

Governor Washington Jr., better known as Governor, is an Southern American Soul and R&B singer who was signed to T.I.'s label, Grand Hustle, under the aegis of Atlantic Records. He is signed to the newly formed G-Note Records which is a subsidiary label of 50 Cent's G-Unit...

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Entrepreneurial Endeavors

Dean runs TeamDEAN Inc a multimedia company which owns outright his music catalog. TeamDEAN also owns the Soundproof Mixing Lab, a recording and production studio, TeamDEAN Video, and Team Dean Street Team. Dean also co-chairs the L.I.V.E.O.N. Non-Profit Organization.

Discography

• 2006: Richcity Blues...A Collection of Crunk Hits
• 2009: Richcity Blues...A collection of Crunk Hits (Deluxe Edition)
• 2009: Richcity Dreams...The root of all evil

External links

• Dean's official MySpace webpage