D.Prosper aka Mastermind | Autobiography Of A Bad MC | 1996
Derick Prosper is a MC, Producer and A&R from Providence, Rhode Island, NY. He began his career in the music industry performing at open mics at Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, alongside artists as Masta Ace, Mos Def, Da Bush Babees and Pharaohe Monch. His first single “The Adventures of Mastermind” with three tracks on it “Karma”, “Autobiography of a Bad MC” was released on Fatbeats in 1996. That same year he began working at Columbia Records, where he met Lauryn Hill while she was recording The Fugees LP ‘The Score’. This led him assisting in the studio during the making of her solo album 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ which won 5 Grammy Awards. After that, Derick worked for 50 Cent, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Mobb Deep as the G-Unit/Interscope Records Director of A&R, and from 2002-2004 he was A&R Consultant for Rawkus Records, being responsible for hiring music producers for projects as Black Star, Soundbombing II and III and Talib Kweli and Hi Tek’s 'Reflection Eternal’.
