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Pop (music producer)

Darold "Pop" Trotter (born date) is a developer, manager, and producer of musical talent. Pop began his career as an artist developer for Blackstreet, the American R&B group founded in 1991 by Teddy Riley and Chauncey Hannibal. He assisted in the development of their Blackstreet album in 1994 and Another Level album in 1996. Intent on pursuing a career as a producer, he went on to work as the road manager for EPMD's Back in Business album in 1997.

In 1998, Pop was the assistant to Executive Producer, Erick Sermon, who was the Sample Collector, for Def Squad’s El Niño album. He was also the producer alongside Rocwilder and Erick Sermon on Jay-Z’s Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life album. This Jay-Z album went on to sell 15 million copies and Pop received a Grammy for his work as one of the producers. The success was followed by Pop being named the Head of A&R for Def Jam/Carter Faculty Records.

During his three-year tenure in his position, he co-produced Memphis Bleek's Coming of Age album with J Runner in 1999, co-produced The Source Presents: Hip Hop Hits Vol.4 in 2000, and co-produced Angie Stone's remix of No More Rain Feat. (Loon) with Erick Sermon in 2001.

In 2002, he decided to take a break from music for a year. The time off was taken to mentor and give kids in his community, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a place to play basketball in their spare time. It was his way of giving the youth in his community an option to the growing hustle of drug dealing and credit card scamming. The positive impact it had on the 27 young men, he mentored resulted in the extension of his break to 3 years.

His hiatus from the industry slowed the progress of his career. Nonetheless, he was the producer on DMX's Grand Champ album in 2003 and Jay-Z's Greatest Hits Album in 2006, co-producer on Def Squad Presents Erick Onasis in 2009, and producer on Tweet's Simply Tweet album in 2013.

He also decided to become the producer of film projects. Again, he worked from assistant up to film producer. His work as a film producer includes Tiny and Toya in 2009, Trey Songz's My Moment in 2010, Toya's Family Affair in 2011, Keyshia Cole's All In in 2012, Keyshia Cole's All In in 2014, and From the Bottom Up, and Her in 2017 which all aired on BET.