The two met after Dukes won the Red Bull Big Tune championship in 2009 Dukes had also given Ghost a beat tape the previous year. 2010s: Sample innovator and acclaim Ĭreative relationships and album productionĪt the end of the 2000s, Dukes connected with Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah, producing three tracks for his 2010 album Apollo Kids. 2 (The Hunger for More 2), for which Dukes was $5,000 paid in 2008, among other tracks released years later. This included his first paid placement for a major artist, the song "Sooner or Later (Die 1 Day)" on Banks' third studio album H.F.M. In the late 2000s, Dukes would produce a number of tracks for G-Unit rappers Lloyd Banks and 50 Cent. In 20, he took part in the Red Bull Big Tune producer competition at these events, he connected with a number of artists and their A&R, most notably G-Unit, Danny Brown, and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah. Dukes relationship with producer Boi-1da, who would become one of the in-house producers for Drake's OVO Sound label, has led to many collaborations for Drake since this time. Dukes was one of the first producers to work with Drake, producing the track "Money" off his debut mixtape Room for Improvement, released in 2006. In 2005, he connected with Toronto-based music manager Mo' Jointz who found Duke placements with Toronto and New York-area hip hop artists, including Slaughterhouse's Joell Ortiz, Kool G Rap, and Choclair. His first production credit was a 2003 remix for Philadelphia rapper Hezekiah and he later had his first paid placement with a Toronto artist named General Too Smooth. He chose the stage name Frank Dukes as a teenager, inspired by the character of Frank Dux in the martial arts film Bloodsport, and competed in a number of local DJ contents. Career 2000s: Early career and first placements ĭukes began producing music seriously in the early 2000s. Dukes has stated that he had no intention to make music his profession. Robert Catholic High School in Thornhill in 2001. This habit got him into record production and he bought an MPC the following year. In 1999, at age 16, Dukes began collecting records from the 1960s and 1970s in an effort to understand how they were made. Īs a teenager, he spent a lot of time skateboarding and gained more interest in music, particularly New York hip hop, becoming a DJ at 15 years old. He later taught himself to play guitar, bass and drums. His first exposure to creating music was piano lessons at age five however, he quit lessons after three years due to losing interest in it. 2.2 2010s: Sample innovator and acclaimĪdam King Feeney was born on September 12, 1983, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was raised in the city's northern suburb of Thornhill.2.1 2000s: Early career and first placements.
He is considered one of Canada's top producers having been awarded Songwriter of the Year by SOCAN four times and has received similar honors from BMI, the Juno Awards, Variety, and Jaxsta. Among other awards and nominations, Feeneys' work has won three Grammy Awards from 30 nominations. Feeney has helped produce over thirty platinum singles since 2014.
He came to prominence in the 2010s as a composer and beatmaker whose work was utilized by prominent record producers to sample in their own productions many of his samples have been used in songs for major artists including Drake (with Feeneys' major placement, " 0 to 100"), Travis Scott, Taylor Swift, and Kanye West, with some drawing from the Kingsway Music Library, a popular sample library which he has run since 2011. In his early career, Feeney established himself as a producer by working with a number of members of Wu-Tang Clan and G-Unit as well as young Toronto talent like BADBADNOTGOOD. After using the moniker for twenty years, in November 2021, he announced his retirement as Frank Dukes to pursue his own music and art as Ging. A prolific producer, he has worked with artists including Camila Cabello (" Havana," " Never Be the Same"), Post Malone (" Congratulations," " Better Now," Circles") and The Weeknd (" Call Out My Name"). Adam King Feeney (born September 12, 1983), better known by his former stage name Frank Dukes, is a Canadian record producer, songwriter, and former DJ.
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