Doseone

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Doseone
Background information
Birth name	Adam Drucker
Born	April 21, 1977 (1977-04-21) (age 32)
Genres	Rap, indie
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Vocals

Doseone is the stage name of Adam Drucker (born April 21, 1977), an emcee, artist, and poet from Cincinnati, Ohio. Dose is known for his nasal, high pitched, fast polyrhythmic rapping style and abstract lyrics. He often simultaneously performs synth, sampler, or keyboard on stage. His words tend to express upon topics of childhood, nature, and American life. Early in his musical career, Dose was in a freestyle rap battle with a then unknown Eminem at Scribble Jam 1997.^[1]

He is a founding member of the Anticon hip hop collective, recording with cLOUDDEAD, Boom Bip, Themselves, Greenthink, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Subtle, as well as cameo appearances with many other artists, such as Aesop Rock, Sole, and Mike Patton's Peeping Tom. His latest projects have been Subtle's ExitingARM, the solo album Skeleton Repellent, and the spoken word album Soft Skulls.

A recurring character in much of Doseone's work is Hour Hero Yes. He is mentioned in the 13 & God song "Ghostwork" and throughout the three Subtle albums. Album and video artwork, as well as art on Subtle's official website, suggest Hour Hero Yes to be a bald man with a black and white striped face—an image which is embodied by a bust that serves as a centerpiece prop during live Subtle shows. On the cover of 'For Hero; For Fool' he appears in old military garb, with fire for hair. In 2004 he published his first combination poetry book/CD, The Pelt.

Recently, Dose has begun posting an online animated cartoon entitled 'NOTGarfield'. The series is comprised of characters from Garfield involved in surreal dada situations. As well as the art for most albums in which he is involved, Dose also is responsible for all artwork on Jel's album Soft Money.

Discography

Solo

• Hemispheres (A Purple 100, 1997)
• Slowdeath (A Purple 100, 2000)
• The Pelt (CD + Book, 2004)
• Ha (A Purple 100, 2005)
• Soft Skulls (Self-released, 2007)
• Skeleton Repelent (Purple Gorilla, 2007)
• Be Evil (Self-released, 2009)

With Anticon

• Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop (Anticon Records, 1999)
• Gigasingle (Anticon Records, 2002)
• We Ain't Fessin' (Anticon Records, 2002)
• Anticon Sampler: 1999-2004 (Anticon Records, 2004)

With members of Themselves and The Notwist as 13 & God

• Men of Station 12" (Anticon Records, 2005)
• 13 & God (Anticon Records, 2005)
• Live in Japan (Art Union, 2008)

With members of Themselves and other instrumentalists as Subtle

• Summer (A Purple 100, 2002)
• Winter (A Purple 100, 2002)
• Autumn (A Purple 100, 2002)
• Spring (A Purple 100, 2003)
• A New White (Lex Records, 2004)
• Earthsick (A Purple 100, 2004)
• Wishingbone (Lex Records, 2006)
• For Hero: For Fool (Lex Records, 2006)
• Yell&Ice (Lex Records, Oct. 2007)
• ExitingARM (Lex Records, May 2008)

With Jel as Themselves

• Joyful Toy of 1001 Faces 12" (Anticon Records, 1999)
• Them (Anticon Records, 1999)
• This About the City Too... 12" (Anticon Records, 2002)
• The No Music. (Anticon Records, 2003)
• Live (A Purple 100, 2003)
• The No Music of Aiff's (Anticon Records, 2003)
• Live II (A Purple 100, 2005)
• CrownsDown (Anticon Records, 2009)
• theFREEhoudini (Anticon Records, 2009)

With Why? and Odd Nosdam as Clouddead

• apt.A (2000)
• and all you can do is laugh. (2000)
• I promise never to get paint on my glasses again. (2001)
• JimmyBreeze (2001)
• (cloud dead number five) (2001)
• Bike (2001)
• Clouddead (Mush Records, 2001)
• The Peel Session (2001)
• The Sound of a Handshake / This About the City (2002)
• Ten (Mush Records, 2004)
• Collaged At Mom's (Limited Edition Instrumentals) (2007)

With Boom Bip

• Circle (Mush Records, 2000)

With Why? as Greenthink

• It's Not Easy Being... (Self-Released, 1998)
• Blindfold (A Purple 100, 1999)

With Alias, Sole and Slug as Deep Puddle Dynamics

• Rain Men 12" (Anticon Records, 1999)
• The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? (Anticon Records, 2000)

Also Appeared With

• Alias on the song Opus Ashamed
• Alias & Tarsier on the song Luck and Fear
• A Grape Dope on the song Red Hat Attack
• Hood on the songs They Removed All Trace That Anything Had Ever Happened Here, Branches Bare and You're Worth the Whole World
• Raj on the song Hurry Up and Slow Down
• DJ Krush on the song A Song for John Walker
• Push Button Objects on the song Air
• Revolutionary Ink on the song Inventor's Cry
• Jel on the song Select Mix
• Daddy Kev on the song Drinking Cup
• TTC on the song Pas D'armure
• Populous on the song My Winter Vacation
• Prefuse 73 on the song Untitled
• Aesop Rock on the songs Drawbridge and Odessa
• DJ Abilities on the song Civilization
• Why? on the songs 7:35 AM (parts 1), 7:35 AM (part 2), Sanddollars and Gemini (Birthday Song)
• J. Rawls on the song Meniscus
• Sole on the songs Didn't You Know, Human Races the Tortoise, Very Important Message, Painting Words, Zero Zero Zero, ADD, Our Dirty Big Secret and No Thanks
• Peeping Tom on the song How U Feelin?
• The Pedestrian on the songs Dead Beats, Generation Of, O Silent Bed, and Anticon
• Boom Bip on the song Mannequin Hand Trapdoor I Reminder
• Fog on the songs Glory and Moon Repellent
• Illogic on the song Dose One
• Dose remixed Björk's song Jóga
• Tommy V on the song Carnival Creatures
• Onry Ozzborn on the song Magicians
• dDamage on the song Feed the Fish
• Andrew Coleman on the song Not a Speculation
• Frederick & Nina on the song 10th Floor Witches
• Funkstörung on the song Basic P.P.O. Blues
• Baiyon on the song Baiyon And Hair Stylistics
• Sleep on the song Running of the Bulls
• Shing02, Doc Maxwell, & Kirby Dominant on the song Confessions (Of Three Men)
• Communication Project on the song Do Tell
• DJ BAKU on the song Void It Out

External links

• Doseone official MySpace
• anticon homepage
• subtle homepage
• mush records
• Dose One Gigastore
• Anticon lyrics
• Interview
• VOID IT OUT

References

1. ^ http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/5981-doseone/