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= N9NE D2UCE =

Glenn Cyril Romain Bapté-Jean-Louis (born July 10, 1992), known professionally as N9NE D2UCE, is a French rapper, songwriter, record producer and entrepreneur.

= Early Life =

N9NE D2UCE was born as Glenn Cyril Romain Bapté-Jean-Louis in the 19th Arrondissement of Paris, France on July 10, 1992. He was raised in the projects of Saint-Ouen, Ile-de-France, France on Avenue Michelet. After his mother won custody - following an aggravated conflict with N9NE D2UCE's father, she decided to move to Paris 19th Arrondissement to raise N9NE D2UCE - 3 years old then, on her own. Only child of the family, N9NE D2UCE would later meet and reconcile with his father after moving back from Los Angeles, California in 2015.

N9NE D2UCE moved to Guadeloupe with his mother in December 1998. He attended Saint-Joseph de Cluny Elementary School (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe), Massabielle 2 Elementary School (Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe), Massabielle Secondary School (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) and Charles Coeffin High School (Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe). After his graduation in 2010, N9NE D2UCE moved to Los Angeles, California in August, 2010 to attend California State University, Northridge. He later dropped out in January 2015.

= Music career =

2010-2012: Record producing, Celebrity DJ Wook...
N9NE D2UCE started record producing at as early as 16 years old, and really focused on it starting in 2010-2011. Later on, he got introduced to Celebrity DJ Wook - who performed for Kurupt and former Lakers Jordan Farmar and Nick Young among others, for whom he video edited and shot part of the two-part documentary DJ WOOK: The Journal.

Hustling to find an artist for whom he could produce, he was afterwards introduced to the CEO of Typhoon Music Group, cousin of the Marley's family, who would ask for his movie editing skills service while he opened the door to the music industry.

2013-2015: Typhoon Music Group, Nature's Way Entertainment: Grammy-award winning songwriter King MAS, DBerg Studios recording session...
In 2013, N9NE D2UCE went to DBerg Studios, in Burbank, California, in order to mix a track which he produced for an artist - which finished as a dead-end project.

Later in 2014, Typhoon Music Group CEO/Record Executive introduced N9NE D2UCE to Reggae artiste and Grammy-award winning songwriter King MAS (now MediSun) and Jamaican native and CEO/Record Executive of Nature's Way Entertainement, Garfield Cowan, who produced for Reggae artistes Jah Cure and Wayne Wonder, among others.

2016-2018: Smoke (Single)...
N9NE D2UCE released his first single "Smoke" in April 2017, under the name Cyril Romain. However, due to copyright issues, he later decided to remove the single from all streaming platforms.

2019-2021: Feud with the local French Caribbean music scene, The Finest Hour EP
Following his failed attempt, N9NE D2UCE went back to hustling right before the COVID-19 pandemic was announced. His cash flow cut short, he then called on the biggest studio on Guadeloupe island, which people know him since middle school years as they crossed path again in early 2019; they yet haven't returned any of his phone messages after sharing his story after having been requested his phone number.

Knowing the life, the culture and the Los Angeles music scene, he quickly realized that many of the artists affiliated with the Guadeloupe studio's record label in question of the island were not living it but plainly imitating the lifestyle of successful people they are seeing on TV, after seeing a music video at a local barber shop, depicting some of N9NE D2UCE's life by showing a rented Ducati - whereas N9NE D2UCE bought his brand new Ducati 796 Hypermotard in 2011 from a Beverly Hills dealership, or them rapping in English like him - which were not their primary lane.

He later on then released his debut project The Finest Hour as an independent artist on November, 16 2021.

= Musical Style =

Influences
N9NE D2UCE says his earliest music exposure was through his mother's record collection which was mostly Funk, Jazz, Blues, R&B, such as The Jacksons 5, Erykah Badu and Eros Ramazzotti. His earliest recall to Hip-Hop musical influence was the Heavy D's record "Nuttin' But Love" which was on a CD he got from a McDonald's Happy Meal Funk CD gift (on which there was The Jacksons 5 "Torture" track and a song from The Pasadenas among others) through his meal when at the local fast food scenery near Parc de La Villette in Paris, 19th Arrondissement in 1996.

Later when moving to Guadeloupe in 1998, N9NE D2UCE claims he was only listening to the Jazz and Hip-Hop music channel during the AOM airplane flight, on which he was listening to Aaliyah's "One in A Million" track and Notorious B.I.G.'s track "Hypnotize". He then wanted to become a record producer.

At 7 years old, N9NE D2UCE experienced his first sound system with his uncle David Jean-Louis in 1999, in Trois-Rivieres, Guadeloupe.

As he then became a teenager while living in the French West Indies, he grew accustomed to listening to many music genres such as Reggae/Dancehall music, Soca music and more, as well as Hip-Hop.

= Discography =

EP album

 * The Finest Hour (2021)