User:Reg-Dilla

Regicide Kaizer Thabo Mo Yang (born November 09, 1988 in Klersdorp, North-West, South Africa) is a MEMA award nominee record producer, rapper and beat maker whose style of production and arranging was very influential in music during the late-1990s. With partner Dee Of Dillatron(Dumisani Rasenavho), he is a member of the hip hop group/label Dillatron Music and is young brother of Maruping Maruping Snr. He released his debut solo beat-tape, Registrumentals:The Tribute early 2012, The Beat-Tape had 80,000+ downloads in 2 Months, followed by Rare View Future in late 2012, and before any projects in 2009, he worked on an unreleased mixtape with DeathleaQue. He has produced hit tracks for many artists and has his own record label with Dee and Colin, Dillatron Music.

Reg-Dilla is similar to producers such as James "J-Dilla" Yancey in that he helped to redefine the sound of an entire genre of music with an immediately recognizable production style. The songs he produces feature unusual arrangements, sounds, and instrumentation, tied together by a trademark sense of rhythm. Like Black Milk and Kanye West, Reg-Dilla’s production sometimes overshadows the credited performer and becomes the actual “star” of the song.

Regicide grew up in Ventersdorp, North-West, where he became acquainted with Dee of Dillatron, whose MC name was “Reg” Originally a disc jockey known as “DJ Charlie Dee”from Harare,Zimbabwe, Regicide began making hip-hop backing tracks on a Casio keyboard he owned. In 2006 DeathleaQue heard his material and, taken by Reg’s unique sense of rhythm, immediately began working with him.