Houston-born producer Mike Dean is the hip-hop world’s version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone in the music industry today who he hasn’t either worked with…
You might know Mike Dean from his work on pivotal Texas rap albums by UGK, the Geto Boys, Z-Ro, and Devin the Dude or from his work as a co-producer, mixer, and masterer for everyone from Kanye West…
“I can be pretty blunt”, admits veteran US hip-hop producer Mike Dean. He’s talking specifically, in this instance, about how he deals with label A&Rs who try to interfere in his process…
Mike Dean has released his first ever instrumental album called 4:20 just in time for the smokers holiday of April 20th. For the past almost 30 years, the marijuana enthusiast has worked as a…
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