Born Patrick D. Douthit in Winston-Salem, NC, 9th Wonder is a Grammy Award Winning Producer, DJ, and College Lecturer, and Social Activist.
9th attended North Carolina Central University, where he decided to pursue a career in music. He, along with Phonte Coleman and Thomas Jones (Rapper Big Pooh), formed the hip hop trio, Little Brother, in 1998. The group released the critically acclaimed album, "The Listening", which received 4 mics in Source Magazine.
9th was then tapped to produce a track on Jay-Z's "Black Album", which became his first major label placement. From there, 9th Wonder produced 3 songs for the R&B Giant Destiny's Child on the album "Destiny Fulfilled"(Girl, Is She The Reason, Game Over), won a Grammy with Mary J. Blige for her album "The BreakThrough" (Good Woman Down), Erykah Badu's "Honey" on the album New Amerykah, and most recently, Ludacris' "Do The Right Thang", a song featuring Common and Spike Lee.

9th was chosen by Aaron Mcgruder to score music for the critically acclaimed series "The Boondocks". He has endorsed companies such as M-Audio Electronics, FL Studio, LRG Clothing Company, and Creative Recreation Shoe Company. 9th Wonder was one of 12 individuals selected by The Pepsi Corporation for the African American Calendar, "The First Of Many". Currently, 9th is working on an album with Hollywood actor Idris Elba, slated for a 2009 release. He is the president, founder and _CEO of It's a Wonderful Music Group, which focuses on catering to the 28 to 40 year old demographic of music lovers, with two independent labels to boot, Jamla Records and The Academy Music Group.

9th Wonder hosts a radio show along with Kyle Santillian on Soul 104.5 FM in Fayetteville, NC called "TRUE SCHOOL RADIO" playing the first 24 years of hip-hop, along with 80's R&B, and New jack Swing. 9th believes in the preservation of Black music throughout all its divisions (jazz, gospel, funk, soul, afrobeat, hip-hop), and its connections to music enthnocology and the African diaspora.

9th was recently appointed the National Ambassador For Hip-Hop Relations and Culture for the NAACP by Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, where he leads a board of Ph.D.'s Hip-Hop Artists, and Juris Doctorates. 9th was recently interviewed by Neill McNeill of FOX 8 News in The Piedmont, NC, for a segment entitled "NewsMaker", to showcase North Carolinians who are making a difference in the community.

9th was appointed Artist of Residence by former North Carolina Central University Chancellor James Ammons (now President of Florida A&M University) in the fall of 2006. An artist of residence is someone involved heavily in the music industry to conduct a course or seminar of a particular subject. He was approached by Dr. Kawachi Clemons, Ph.D. of Education, to develop a course called "Hip Hop in Context, 1973-1997", a study of a develop and cultural history of Hip Hop starting with James Brown in the late 1960's, going all the way to death of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997.

9th Wonder and six other individuals to celebrate the music, culture, and film of 70's babies and The Spike Lee Era founded the True School Corporation in 2006. In the United States there are millions of Black Americans between the ages of 28-40 that grew up in a time where hip-hop was diverse, informative and soulful. These same individuals have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, accountants, dentists, etc., and still have a love of what hip-hop used to be.. The media has demonized hip-hop in the last 10 years; so many of Black Americans tend to shy away from the picture that the media has created for hip-hop. True School has changed the minds of the generation before us (50's and 660's babies) and let theme know that emcees such as Chuck D, Rakim, KRS ONE, the e Native Tongues, Outcast, and countless other has had much of an effect on our lives as our teachers and educators.

"Hip-Hop is the voice of a t least 2 generations. At one time, it was the POSITIVE voice, as stated earlier. Chuck D was black history teacher i never had, along with countless other black Americans my age. It can be that aging, but with the right voices and the right players. As the late Curtis Mayfield said. "We must educate and well as Entertain..."

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