Today we’d like to introduce you to Dae John Bey.
Hi Dae John, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Before I fell in love with becoming a music producer, I had high dreams of becoming a professional basketball player. I was honored & blessed to play at the collegiate level & maintain both Associate’s & Bachelor’s degrees, along with a certification in HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning). As far as I can remember I began my producer journey at the age of 12, being influenced by a producer named “Skinny Mooxe” who influenced me with his sample chops. He had sampled Al Green – “Something” & that’s what intrigued me the most to actually jump into beat-making.
When I first started making beats, I was using the demo version of FL Studio & the beats I would make, I would save them to CDs and keep them in my mom’s car when we’d ride around so I could hear them. I didn’t own headphones nor a phone so that was my only option at the time.
Since then, I’ve always been making beats. I just never use to upload on YouTube or Soundcloud to share because I wanted to learn as much as I could about being a producer and the music industry. However, what I did do was network and reach out a lot through YouTube and Twitter to specifically send beats to artists that I felt would sound great on my productions and while doing so, I rallied in tons of different placements and meeting other producers and artists from all over the world all while being a pre-teenager.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
My life as becoming/being a producer has been a journey. As I balanced school, basketball, relationships, a job & producing, I had somehow gone into a phase of depression.
In the year of 2019, I was diagnosed with a life-changing injury called “spontaneous-pneumothorax” whereas my lungs had collapsed in the middle of basketball practice. Transitioning, as I arrived at the hospital, I was told if I hadn’t arrived in 15-minutes, I would have lost my life. That moment there devasted me so much because I wasn’t sure if I’d ever be the same nor be alive.
COVID-19 had also come about which added to the depression because you couldn’t go outside, nor was I healed so I was on bed rest for nearly a year. Although I was already making beats consistently & getting placements, it was the only thing keeping me in a positive spirit bringing me joy.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
What sets me apart from others is my consistency, ambition & humbleness. I say these because despite of me “almost” losing my life and fighting against depression, I never lost hope & I also never gave up. I just kind of poked my chest out & held my head high to reach for the stars because I’ve always believed that one day, my life will change for the better from all the hard work and efforts I’ve put my time into. Not having the best support system & feeling like I’m just alone, that takes a lot of heart to do so. That’s what I’m most proud of.
I’m learning how to engineer and record, but currently, I specialize in producing (making beats), media/music writing, video and photography as well.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
Just be you & take care of your mental. What you do, and how you create is the originality of something that’s going to be presented new into the entire world. Never ever let someone tell you that you can’t and never allow someone to dictate your next move. Believe in yourself.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/daebxy
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdaebxy/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialDaeBxy
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-vDi2ESlAdeutYd7BeFGw
- Other: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/daebxy/1561804447
Image Credits
@BigBoatproductions @TheLegacyofJay @Twavyvisualst @TCphotography__
