Mikey D#Discography

Mikey D was born on November 25, 1967, in Laurelton, Queens, New York City, to Linda Deering and Victor Fisher.{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CScB-7jLxrk/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/thereal_mikeyd/2637992204327394020 |archive-date=2021-12-25 |url-access=registration| title=Sending A Happy Birthday Shoutout To My Pops Big Vic Fisher!! Love You Man!! R.I.P. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 | publisher=Instagram | access-date=September 25, 2021 | last=Deering | first=Michael}}{{cbignore}} His parents separated when he was young and he was raised by his grandparents, Jerome and Betty Deering in Laurelton Queens, New York. He attended PS 37 in Queens, followed by JHS 231, also in Queens. He attended Springfield Gardens High School.

Mikey started rapping during junior high school, after hearing music by the Cold Crush Brothers and Clientele Brothers, which inspired him to become an MC. He was the youngest member to join the Clientele Brothers, a group of emcees consisting of Eddie O'Jay and Will Seville.{{cite web|url=https://thesource.com/2021/09/05/the-real-mikey-d-shares-incredible-journey-in-upcoming-documentary-series/ |title=THE REAL MIKEY D SHARES INCREDIBLE JOURNEY IN UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY SERIES

|publisher=Sha Be Allah |date=September 5, 2021 |accessdate=2021-09-06}} He would write rhymes and freestyle in parks and areas around his neighborhood,{{cite web|url=https://www.promote.hiphop/artist/mikey-dstruction/ |title=MIKEY D'STRUCTION |publisher=Promote Hip-Hop|date= |accessdate=2021-09-26}} getting trained by O'Jay and Seville, working to develop his skills and rhyme flows.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9z4tphKCU&t=1506s |title=Mikey D Speaks On DJ Vlad's Lack Of Hip-Hop Knowledge And Replacing Large Professor In Main Source |publisher=Youtube |date= February 2021|accessdate=2021-09-25}}

While in high school, he met future emcee/actor LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), although he and Mikey didn't go to the same school. James went to Andrew Jackson High School. They would come to each other's schools and freestyle rhymes together. At the time, LL was known as J-Ski, but Mikey suggested a new moniker for him. He gave him the stage name "Ladies Love", but James shortened it to just "LL." James added the word "Cool" and the initial "J", for his first name.{{cite web|url=http://www.bombhiphop.com/newbomb/bombpages/mikeyd.html |title=MIKEY D |publisher=Mikey D |date= |accessdate=2021-09-06}}{{Primary source inline|date=September 2024|reason=The source at http://www.bombhiphop.com/newbomb/bombpages/mikeyd.html has the heading "From The Horse's Mouth by Mikey D" so it appears to be a primary source.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/mikey-d-the-best-rapper-you-never-heard-of/6439/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022124225/https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/mikey-d-the-best-rapper-you-never-heard-of/6439/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |title=MIKEY D: THE BEST RAPPER YOU NEVER HEARD OF |publisher=Ozy |date= 5 February 2016|accessdate=2021-09-06}}

In 1985, Mikey and his group the Symbolic Three signed to Reality Records. Around that year, he and his friend Johnnie Quest met inspiring upcoming producer named Paul "Paul C" McKasty, through Cliente Brothers members Eddie O'Jay and Will Seville.{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/micro-chop/paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era-aea20515d282|title=Paul C. McKasty: the Legend, the Tragedy, the Story of an Era|last=Sorcinelli|first=Gino|date=2017-09-20|website=Medium|access-date=2017-09-25}}

He formed a group with the late Paul C and childhood friend DJ Johnnie Quest. According to Deering, he stated that his group originally wanted to be called "Boom Bash", but one of his managers didn't think it was a good idea. The group was called Mikey D & the L.A. Posse. They were signed to Public Records. They had a single which was released in 1987, song called "My Telephone", along with tracks like "Dawn" and "Bust a Rhyme". He followed up with two other singles "I Get Rough" & "Go For It" in the same year.{{cite web |url=http://www.bombhiphop.com/newbomb/bombpages/mikeyd.html |title=Mikey D |work=Bomb Hip Hop |date=2012 |access-date=6 September 2021}}

In 1988, Mikey D was the winner of the New Music Seminar Battle for World Supremacy where he battled Melle Mel.{{Cite web|url=https://mikeydstruction.weebly.com/micography.html|title = Micography}}

While recording an album with his group, he learned that Paul C was murdered in his sleep at his home. There were disputes with another group who were also named the L.A. Posse, a group from Los Angeles and Sleeping Bag Records, a label that Mikey was signed to. Sleeping Bag Records was forced to drop the group's name after being sued for name duplication and Mikey took a three-year break from the music business after the death of producer Paul "Paul C" McKasty. While spending time in Miami, Florida, his manager was Mike Beasley. He had a cousin who owned a studio in Manhattan, New York City, New York. This cousin looked for a label to give Mikey D a record deal but instead, Mikey D caught the attention of R&B singer Jeff Redd when he heard Mikey's freestyling raps. Redd told him of a group called Main Source that needed a lead rapper. Mikey D contacted and freestyled raps to the group and they liked what they heard.

In 1993, he become an official member of the critically acclaimed Toronto/Queens-based hip hop group Main Source after Large Professor left to pursue a solo career.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPoClzuLU_M |title=Outlaw Radio Live's Interview With The Real Mikey D |work=Youtube |date=2020 |access-date=25 September 2021}} He appeared on Fuck What You Think on Wild Pitch Records in 1994. They released a single called "What You Need", which did well in Billboard's Hot Rap Singles, only peaking at #48.

He is featured on a song called "Pump Ya Fist Like This" on Large Professor's 2008's third album, Main Source.

In 2016, Mikey released his first ever solo album Day of D'Struction on Elements of Hip Hop{{cite web | url=https://oldtothenew.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/album-review-mikey-d/ | title=Album Review – Mikey D | date=30 October 2016 }}

In 2020, Mikey released a distribution company called Pass the Torch, where he is the founder and currently operates his own company.{{Cite web|url=https://pass-the-torch.com/about/|title=About|date=25 May 2020}}

Mikey currently hosts his own show on YouTube called The Real Mikey D History (His-story),The Real Mikey D History (His-story). a documentary series released in 2021.

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with Main Source

• Fuck What You Think (1994, Wild Pitch Records)

as Mikey D and the LA Posse

• Better Late Than Never: In Memory of Paul C (2006, MicSic)

Solo albums

• Day of D'Struction (2016, Elements of Hip-Hop)

Collaboration albums

• Dramacide (with DJ Trouble Lee) (2019, 16F)

Extended plays

• Calm Before the Storm (with Elements of Hip-Hop) (2013){{Cite web|url=https://oldtothenew.wordpress.com/tag/calm-before-the-storm/|title=Calm Before the Storm – Old to the New – Ryan Proctor's Beats, Rhymes & Hip-Hop Nostalgia}}
• From the Heart (with J-Soul) (2014)

• 2005: "The Perfect Storm" (Cee-Rock "The Fury" album Bringin' Da' Yowzah!!!) SB 1
• 2008: "Pump Ya Fist Like This" (Large Professor album Main Source)
• 2013: "Sweet 16s" (Neek the Exotic album Hustle Don't Stop)
• 2013: "The Amazing" (Red Venom album Red House)
• 2013: "The Operation" (DJ Shark album Oxidized Silver)
• 2015: "Mikey Destruction, Devastating Tito & DJ Slice" (Canibus & Bronze Nazareth album Time Flys, Life Dies...Phoenix Rise)
• 2019: "The Spark" (Taiyamo Denku album The Book of Cyphaden - Chapter One)
• 2021: "Nyghtlife" (The Good People album The Greater Good)

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• [https://pass-the-torch.com/ Mikey D's Distribution Company]

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