About Beats By Divine

Divine- The Mind, a music producer from a small city ten minutes outside of New Orleans called Kenner. Divine was first taught the fundamentals of the d.j. in the early eighties by his older cousin,while living in Toledo, Ohio. Once he moved back to New Orleans, he quickly became the go to d.j. in the hood for recording songs, and cuts & scratches. He once had two groups fighting over who he would d.j. for. This was his position for the next few years, until the industry took a d.j. slump, with the rise of keyboard samplers, He took his talent to new heights by purchasing his first ASR-10 keyboard, this changed his whole outlook on music. Divine was no longer the d.j. who used two cassette decks facing each other to dub tracks, but with this new sound, he was now producer, engineer for the next ten years he would record artists in the back of grandmas' house and enter talent shows. He eventually got his groups into some better recording studios, which is where he met Aubrey Francis, whom is now manager for Juvenile. He ran a recording studio in New Orleans and liked the music Divine was producing, and also the way he would handle things in the studio. When Juvenile started UTP Records, he was seeking a producer with a diffrent sound Aubrey called up Divine and told him he would audition some of Divine's music to Juvenile for his new UTP Records label. Divine and Juvy had instant chemistry that put Divine on tour for the next year with Juvy, Skip,Wacko, and Young Buck. Divine has met quite a few top chefs in the rap industry during his stint with UTP, until the end of 2001. Divine had to leave the label because of financial strain on Juvy with legal issues with his former label, Cash Money Records. Not burning any bridges he and Juvy holla at each other every blue moon, he even runs into one of Juvy's bodyguards every now and then and conversate. He returned to Louisiana after touring half the U.S. to pick up where he left but now with 3 national releases under his belt with UTP Records. He has cranked out a few mixtapes in his area, and is now working on a jazz/ hip hop fusion album, solo rap album, and more strong instrumentals, which can be heard at your request for a sample CD email: djdivine2004@yahoo.com.

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