Some words one could use to describe the meeting of musicians AmDex and DT might be 'fate', 'yin and yang', or 'synchronicity' - but 'destined' is the best fit.  Aside from sampling the same records before knowing each other, both have strong roots in North Carolina, and DT has no qualms shedding light on his small-town upbringing. The 22-year-old describes Hickory, NC as a place with nice neighborhoods, pleasant parks and decent schools, but definitely a city racked by the crack epidemic and poverty. The two scenes are never far apart, and he did his time in both, gaining a sense of perspective at an early age. After discovering his gift for fierce rhyming during a New Year's Eve party at 12 years old, DT eventually started DJing. The road eventually led him to Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he would not only learn the particulars of the Black bourgeoisie and murder just about everyone on the battle circuit, but run into his future crew-mates, AmDex and Felix of The VJC, which helped him concentrate on his production talents. 

AmDex (23) paints a mirroring image of his neighboring birthplace of Raleigh, a bustling yet segregated city in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. Searching for something better, his mother moved to Atlanta and worked hard to give him a wider perspective and better options. Young "Dex" has been in the ATL since elementary school, playing with rap when he was about seven years old and producing and DJing when he was 15, right around the time he met DJ X-Ro, founder of The VJC, an offspring of the celebrated Project Blowed. He began to master the  MPC 2000XL while attending Georgia State University and began to raise the eyebrows of artists such as Little Brother, Lauryn Hill, and Dungeon Family members, as well as hosting/deejaying on Rhythm and Vibes and The Bomb, two hip-hop programs on WRAS, GSU radio from 2004-2005.  DT and Dex met on the AUC strip and started sharing ideas on music, DJing, beat-sampling techniques and rhymes.  Those conversations proved to be the birth of Clan D, two emcees/deejays/producers (read: b-boys).  The rest is history...and the future.

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