9th Wonder (real name Patrick Douthit) is a Grammy Award winning hip hop record producer, record label executive, lecturer and occasional rapper (under the pseudonym 9thmatic) from Durham, NC. He started off as 1/3 of the group Little Brother along with Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh and gained industry recognition producing songs for Jay Z, Destiny’s Child and Mary J Blige to name a few.

9th also founded and currently runs Jamla Records, a record label boasting the talents of rappers Rapsody, Add-2, GQ, HALO and Actual Proof along with the Soul Council production team, comprising Khrysis, Amp and Ka$h. He also lectures at both Duke and Harvard universities and is the subject of two documentaries – “The Wonder Year” and “The Hip Hop Fellow.”