# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/d-nice
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:28:55.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/d-nice"
name: "D-Nice"
slug: "d-nice"
description: "Derrick T. Jones, better known by his stage name D-Nice, is an American DJ, record producer, and rapper who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions. He discovered KRS-One in 1988, landing him a deal with Jive Records."
tagline: "American DJ, record producer, and rapper (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D-Nice%2C_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1970-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.89
  momentum:             0.8588351431391907
  historical:           6.766032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0195979/"
    handle:    "nm0195979"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://d-nice.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/21921"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "د نيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Nice"
    title: "D-Nice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_Nice"
    title: "D Nice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Nice"
    title: "D-Nice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Nice"
    title: "D-Nice"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b0f58ed1-bc2d-4f28-828d-dcad36d11872"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3288289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1236698"
    title: "D-Nice"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump