About Me
DEMETRIUS CARTER ALSO KNOWN AS D. CARTER, WAS BORN DECEMBER 20, 1984 IN DANVILLE, VIRGINA TO TERRY WILLIAMS AND RICKY CARTER. DEMETRIUS WAS THE OLDEST OF TWO CHILDREN WHICH INCLUDES HIS YOUNGER SISTER, CHARIKA CARTER. SOON AFTER HIS BIRTH, DEMETRIUS' FATHER RICKY FLED THE SCENE. THROUGH A LARGE PORTION OF HIS CHILDHOOD, DEMETRIUS AND HIS SISTER CHARIKA, WERE RAISED IN A SINGLE PARENT HOME BY THERE MOTHER. THROUGHOUT THESE YEARS, DEMETRIUS ATTENDED SCHOOL THE SAME AS ANY OTHER MIDDLE AGED CHILD WOULD. THOUGH HE WAS VERY BOOK SMART, DEMETRIUS STAYED IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL DUE TO BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS. MISSING A FATHER FIGURE, DEMETRIUS OFTEN MISSED OUT ON OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE GRANTED TO OTHER YOUNG BOYS. BUT BY THE TIME DEMETRIUS TURNED SEVEN YEARS OLD, HIS MOTHER HAD RESTARTED AN OLD RELATIONSHIP WITH A HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART. DEMETRIUS' MOTHER WOULD THEN GO ON TO MARRY ELBERT THOMPSON III, WHO WOULD THEN BECOME DEMETRIUS' STEP FATHER. THIS WAS A TURNING POINT IN DEMETRIUS' LIFE BECAUSE NOW HE HAD A MALE FIGURE TO LOOK UP TO. ELBERT TAUGHT DEMETRIUS THE BASIC SKILLS OF LIFE AND HOW TO BE A MAN. BY THE TIME DEMETRIUS ENETERED MIDDLE SCHOOL, HE WAS A STANDOUT ATHLETE IN BOTH FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL. AROUND THIS TIME WAS ALSO WHEN DEMETRIUS HAD STARTED TO GARNER A TRUE LOVE FOR MUSIC, ESPECIALLY HIP-HOP. DEMETRIUS WOULD LISTEN TO HIP-HOP FROM THE TIME HE WOKE UP IN THE MORNING, TILL HE WENT TO SLEEP AT NIGHT. HE WOULD SHOW FAVORITISM TO SUCH EMCEES AS RAKIM, AZ, NAS AND SOON AFTER JAY-Z. TO THIS DAY, HE STILL ADMIRES EACH OF THESE ARTIST TALENT AND MUSICAL DRIVE. AT THE AGE OF 13, DEMETRIUS BEGAN TO WRITE DOWN SHORT VERSES IN COMPOSITION NOTEBOOKS AND ON SCRAP SHEETS OF PAPER. OVER TIME, HE NOTICED THAT HE BECAME BETTER AS THE DAYS WENT BY. HE THEN DECIDED TO SHOW OFF HIS ABILITIES TO HIS CLASSMATES AT SCHOOL. DEMETRIUS' TALENT WAS QUICKLY ACCEPTED BY HIS PEERS AND BEFORE LONG DEMETRIUS WAS RAPPING FOR EVERYBODY. BY HIS SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, DEMETRIUS WAS BATTLING OTHER LOCAL RAPPERS AT ALMOST ANYWHERE YOU COULD THINK OF. SOON, HE BECAME KNOWN CITY WIDE AS A TOP LYRICIST. THATS WHEN DEMETRIUS DECIDE TO TAKE HIS TALENT SERIOUSLY. AFTER GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL, DEMETRIUS ENTERED THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS. WHILE IN THE MARINE CORPS, DEMETRIUS WAS STATIONED IN CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA. DURING HIS TIME ENLISTED, HE WAS DEPLOYED TO IRAQ AND OKINAWA, JAPAN. DURING THESE DFEPLOYMENTS, DEMETRIUS STAYED HEAVY ON HIS MUSIC GRIND WRITING VERSES AND BATTALING OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE MILITARY. AFTER RETURNING FROM JAPAN, DEMETRIUS WOULD SOON MEET UP WITH TRAVIS WHITE, ALSO KNOWN AS KYMANI. DEMETRIUS AND KYMANI WOULD BECOME BEST OF FRIENDS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY BOTH HAD A LOVE FOR MUSIC. KYMANI WOULD THEN INTRODUCE DEMETRIUS, WHO WAS THEN GOING BY THE NAME PHONIX, TO A.N.P. PRODUCTIONS, WHICH WAS AN INDEPENDENT LABEL HEADED BY A FRIEND OF KYMANI. AT THAT TIME, DEMETRIUS STARTED TO RECORD MUSIC WITH A.N.P. AND PREPARE A MIXTAPE ENTITLED "LIFELINES". UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO CREATIVE DIFFERNCES, DEMETRIUS WOULD PART WAYS WITH A.N.P. AND JOIN THE COLLECTIVE MUSIC GROUP WESTBOUND, WHICH WAS HEADED BY HIS FRIEND KYMANI. WHILE MAKING MUSIC WITH WESTBOUND, DEMETRIUS ALSO PERFORMED AT SEVERAL SHOWS THROUGHOUT THE SAN DIEGO AREA. BUT AFTER ONLY BEING WITH THE GROUP ABOUT SIX MONTHS, DEMETRIUS EXITED THE MILITARY AND RELOCATED BACK TO HIS HOME IN VIRGINIA WHERE HE STILL PERSUES HIS MUSIC CAREER FULL TIME. SINCE BEING BACK IN VIRGINIA, DEMETRIUS HAS CHANGED HIS LONG TIME RAP NAME OF PHONIX, TO NOW JUST BEING DEE CARTER, WHICH IS HIS FIRST INITIAL AND HIS LAST NAME. DEMETRIUS STATES "THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE OF MY NAME IS BECAUSE, I ONLY WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ME AS MYSELF, AND THATS ALL I CAN BE". POISED WITH THE DRIVE, THE TALENT AND THE DETERMINATION, D.CARTER IS READY TO SHOW THE WORLD HIS TALENT AND HIS SWAG, WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY HELP HIM GARNER THE STATUS AS A HIP HOP GREAT, LIKE THOSE HE LOOKS UP TO.
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