Dert is an accomplished producer. With his roots firmly in the LA hip-hop underground, over the span of a decade he’s collaborated with many emcees, including LMNO, 2Mex, Ahmad, Micah 9. and KRS-One, to name a few. Ever since Dert’s first nationally released album credits in 1998 (with LPG’s sophomore album ‘360’) he’s been earning respect worldwide as a top-level beat-smith with a catalog that’s both prolific and stylistically unpredictable. Over the years he’s honed his craft putting in some tremendous work as the in-house producer for Tunnelrats Music, where he was the production backbone for the vast majority of .