Doseone is Adam Drucker, a US rapper, producer, poet and artist from Nampa, Idaho, born in 1977. He comes up through battle rap, spending his coming-of-age years moving between Philadelphia and New Jersey and later developing his style in Cincinnati, where he competes in the city’s annual Scribble Jam. He studies college classes in that period and shifts his focus from battle performance to poetry set to music.

Early work and formation of collaborative projects

Doseone begins recording with Jel after becoming familiar with him through Kevin Beacham and then through tapes exchanged via Mr. Dibbs in 1998. The pair quickly build a recording partnership, with their first tracks appearing on Doseone’s self-released Hemispheres in 1998. Between April 1998 and January 1999 they record the material that becomes Themselves’s Them. Around the same period, Doseone records The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel? with Jel, Slug of Atmosphere and Sole, and this record helps give shape to anticon.

Groups and aliases

He is part of a wide set of groups and collaborations including Greenthink, 13 & God, 1200 Hobos, Anticon, cLOUDDEAD, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Subtle, Themselves, Go Dark, A7PHA, Presage, Blud-N-Gutz, Stuffed Animals, Object Beings, Nevermen and Apogee. He is also the frontman of Subtle and a key member of cLOUDDEAD alongside Why? and Odd Nosdam.

Collaborations and style

Doseone works with Boom Bip, John Herndon, prefuse 73, Buck 65, Aesop Rock, Sole and HOOD. His work is associated with abstract hip hop, boom bap, conscious hip hop, electronic, experimental hip hop and poetry, and he is known for an unusually distinctive voice and a style shaped by battle rap, poetry and experimental collaboration. He is associated with anticon. as a label and collective.