Adrian Younge was born on May 7, 1978, in Fontana, California. He earned a Juris
Doctor degree and worked as a lawyer, law professor, and for MTV's legal
department. In the late 1990s, he played bass and keyboards before experimenting
with analog recordings, leading to his project Venice Dawn. His breakthrough
came in 2009 with the Black Dynamite soundtrack. He later released Something
About April (2011), Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics (2013), and Twelve
Reasons to Die with Ghostface Killah. In 2017, he co-founded Jazz Is Dead. His
2021 album The American Negro and podcast ...