Frank Nitt

Associated with the late <a href="spotify:artist:0IVcLMMbm05VIjnzPkGCyp">J Dilla</a> and a member of the revered Detroit underground, Frank Nitt (born Frank Bush) launched his career in the late '90s, joining fellow rapper Dankery Harv in the group <a href="spotify:artist:2ZTaLRGGGwQKyO9spJbthl">Frank-n-Dank</a>. After scoring an underground hit with the 2000 track "Everybody Get Up!," the duo would land on <a href="spotify:artist:0IVcLMMbm05VIjnzPkGCyp">Dilla</a>'s Welcome 2 Detroit album (2001) before signing a deal with major label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22MCA%22">MCA</a>. In 2003, their <a href="spotify:artist:0IVcLMMbm05VIjnzPkGCyp">Dilla</a>-produced official debut album, 48 Hours, was rejected by the label and quickly became a bootleg favorite with the hip-hop faithful. It's non-release would also slow the band, although not its members, with both Nitt -- sometimes using the classic gangster spelling <a href="spotify:artist:2BaWV8QxfS1kwZcqgcyWjI">Frank Nitty</a> -- and Harv both releasing solo efforts. Frank would drop The Concert Hall EP in 2008 on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Digipop%22">Digipop</a> label, while his 2010 EP Jewels in My Backpack would land on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Delicious+Vinyl%22">Delicious Vinyl</a>. A year later he would join producer <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a> for Medicine Show No. 9: Channel 85 Presents Nittyville, a conceptual album that was also part of <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a>'s ambitious 13-album Medicine Show series. In 2012 he penned a short (48 pages) memoir titled The View from the Underground. It was included with the packaging of that year's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Digipop%22">Digipop</a> album Stadium Music. After <a href="spotify:artist:2ZTaLRGGGwQKyO9spJbthl">Frank-n-Dank</a>'s lost effort 48 Hours got an official release in 2013 via <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Delicious+Vinyl%22">Delicious Vinyl</a>, Nitt returned to his own career with the album Frankie Rothstein. The solo LP featured production from <a href="spotify:artist:0IVcLMMbm05VIjnzPkGCyp">Dilla</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0FmyYKhDdIuvAJ3niqQtqD">DJ Rhettmatic</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:76Bkn226zbX3IMiEiLC2h2">J-Rocc</a>. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi