His beats are sprinkled across a who’s who of hip-hop. 50 Cent, De La Soul and Snoop Dogg are quite customers.

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But this time, Seattle producer Jake Dutton, aka Jake One, is producing an album for himself. Called “White Van Music,” the attestation boasts a lineup of rappers from both underground and mainstream arenas. There are indie favorites like MF Doom, Little Brother and Casual of the Hieroglyphics, as considerably viewed like chart-toppers Young Buck and Busta Rhymes.

Hip-hop blogs have been buzzing about his album, with a critic from XXL Magazine hyping it as possibly one of the most expedient. see the various meanings of good of the year. “White Van Music” comes out Tuesday on the respected indie hip-hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment. And, for a producer who usually remains in the sidelines, this is Dutton’sitting lifetime to shine.

“I looked at the album like a big commercial for what I do,” said Dutton, 32.

In fact, a lot of the artists, like Scarface, loved Dutton’s production so a great quantity, they claimed songs for exclusive use on their be in possession of solo albums. Still, his album is packed to the brim by 22 singles. And unlike many albums that offer more fat than meat, this single is quite hearty.

Dutton’s beats — think of beat-making because composing, and producing as conducting — are rooted in traditional hip-hop, he says, with a distribute of animating principle and hard drums. He also mixes in live music, similar to opposed to relying simply on sampling.

“He’sitting a super talented dude that is creating his hold lane,” said Jonathan Moore, a music manager who serves on KEXP’s advisory board and hosts a Sunday night show on KUBE-FM (93.3). “It’s a combination of the music and the person … . The harmony speaks for itself. Also, Jake represents his melody well — in a professional way, in an kind way. He’s relatable as a individual, and that makes it easier for the sake of him to work with such a wide range of people and get the beyond all others out of the people he works with. He’s nonjudgmental. He’s in it as antidote to the music.”

And Dutton freely creates, without catering his beats for anybody.

“I just sit in a descending course and make whatever comes to my head,” said Dutton, who uses guitars, bass and various vintage keyboards to compose his songs. “Anytime I try to make a particular beat for anybody, they slip on’t like it … . People tailor-make stuff for humbler classes, but they’re not exactly looking for that which you venture they are.”

Before, Dutton had tried rapping on songs, no more than “never thought they were any good,” he said.

“As much as I liked rap I just couldn’t see myself acquisition on top of a stage and rapping,” said Dutton, who has sole one line in his own album. “I’m way too much of an introvert to have being doing that. I’m definitely low-key. I don’t like the spotlight that much, such producing is perfect for me.”

Getting the beat out

In high school at Garfield and Mountlake Terrace, construction beats was additional of a hobby; he was greater degree focused on baseball and basketball. It wasn’t until he was a freshman at the University of Washington that he started taking the art more gravely.

“I had one foot in, one foot out,” said the sociology major. “I was going to school, making beats, going to buy records.”

Dutton met another music aficionado, Supreme, and started working for Supreme’s Capitol Hill label, Conception Records. Dutton was only 19 when his first songs came out.

DJ Premier of Gang Starr — a hip-hop tastemaker who has produced for the likes of The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and Nas — positively spun one of Dutton’s songs (”World Premier”) at a harmony in town. On topmost of that, an R&B artist sampled Dutton’s beats in one of her songs.

“To me, it couldn’t get any bigger than that,” said Dutton.

The situation fizzled gone out soon after, but at 20, Dutton admitted that he was too young and inexperienced to succeed. So he made a purpose to do more networking.

He hustled to a radio-industry convention in San Francisco, called the Gavin Seminar. There, he passed out 50 beat tapes and met his at the outset manager. After that, his beats started getting more recognition. Several middlemen started shopping Dutton’s beats for him, to get their own divide of the money. As essentially a songwriter, a beat-maker earns half of the profit generated by a song’s exoneration.

Working with G-Unit

During this time, Dutton met various the multitude in the music habitual devotion to labor, take pleasure in Denaun Porter, an original member of Eminem’sitting group D12. Porter came into town with the Anger Management Tour and introduced him to Sha Money, president of G-Unit, 50 Cent’s record label. Before, Dutton’s only interaction with G-Unit was end middlemen.

“It was for the most part like hitting the lottery,” said Dutton. “I would enjoy the sense of hearing — oh, they got a melody, they wanted beats, oh, they’re not using it, and I normal lenient of got frustrated.”

Dutton gave Sha Money some music and a week later Sha called upper part, saying not only did he use Dutton’session music on individual of the G-Unit soundtracks, he wanted to be Dutton’s director. All Dutton needed to vouchsafe was e-mail over beats and the label would make songs.

“It definitely put me in a different light in the mainstream, being part of that much felicitous stuff,” said Dutton. “But it was race of weird because this whole time, I haven’familiarily been fatiguing to make music on the side of them unavoidably. It fair kind of happened.”

Dutton is more of a freelancer for G-Unit rather than a staffer, but he did receive a spinner look from the G-Unit family for Christmas.

“I’ve met everybody otherwise than that 50,” said Dutton, who has produced many songs for the rapper. “At this point, I put on’confidentially think it matters. It’s like, for whatever reason, he gravitates advancing the platitude I do and that’session good enough. I don’t want to ruin the perception he has about what I look like or what I conclude.”

Now, sticking to his home base of Seattle, he’s working without ceasing sundry albums, including more for the artists on his record’s lineup. He’s also producing for a certain bigwig in hip-hop. Dutton won’t say who put on the record, but it’s someone coming out of a long retirement.

“Just to have my idols be aware of me is enough,” said Dutton.

Marian Liu: 206-464-3825

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