Arthur Dubois taught himself to produce music — trap music — when he was 66 years old. On Monday, he finally played it for someone, and his beats have now gone viral.
Arthur Dubois, a 72-year-old Chicago resident, stunned hip-hop producers and a lot of people online when he mustered up the courage and walked into a local recording studio this week.
Dubois is a father to two kids in their thirties and forties and a grandfather to teenage grandchildren. About six years ago, he taught himself how to produce hip-hop beats as a hobby.
“I was tampering with it but I wasn’t doing too well and stuck at it,” Dubois told BuzzFeed News. He said he grew up loving music, but had never thought to pursue it.
In his sixties, he discovered trap, the subgenre of hip-hop that rose to popularity in the late ’90s/early 2000s. “They didn’t have it in my day,” said Dubois. However, he said it “sound[ed] good” to him and he was drawn to it.
On Monday, after years of “tampering” with and creating trap beats for fun, Dubois said he mustered up the courage to finally take them to a professional producer for feedback.
He walked into a nearby free studio called Haven Studios, a youth mentoring music studio in the south end of Chicago. He asked the owner, a 32-year-old rapper and producer named Andre “Add-2” Daniels, if he could play some of his music for him.
Daniels told BuzzFeed News he was hesitant at first. “I told him it was a studio for the youth, but I could point him in the right direction to reliable people who could help that I personally know,” he said.
However, he noted a “sincerity” in Dubois’ voice, so he said OK. One track.
After his jaw dropped the first time listening, Daniels recorded the encounter.
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