Biba Adams’ feature on Detroit producer-extraordinaire, Nick Speed tells the story of how he broke through.
He began to distribute beat CD’s, while still working with Detroit rap artists, including another close friend from his high school days, Elzhi of Slum Village. It was in 2004, that he executive produced Elzhi’s popular mixtape, Witness My Growth.
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That same year, one of his beat CD’s landed in the hands of D. Prosper, vice president of artists and repertoire (A&R) for G-Unit Records.
“I went out to New York, on the Greyhound, I was supposed to hook up with Kanye West’s manager,” Nick recounts. “I got there, and he stood me up, apparently called back to Chicago in an emergency. Luckily, I had a couple other meetings lined up. I walked my music into Atlantic Records…I met with a distributor who knew the A&R at G-Unit, he called him, and he said that he had the CD but hadn’t made any decisions yet.”
G-Unit would eventually call a mutual acquaintance, a Detroiter who gave him rave reviews as a producer…
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