Daniel Damon Pointer (born February 11, 1999), better known by his stage name BEAR1BOSS, is an American recording artist born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

BEAR1BOSS started writing music in high school, eventually releasing his first body of music Quicc Picc in his senior year. At the time he was also engineering for the Freebandz-signed rapper Casino. This ultimately led him to meet 2 Chainz, who accepted him into his camp and mentored him through the starting stages of his rap career.

BOSS is known for his experimental sound he possesses — mixing genres such as pop, rap, electronic, and many more. He accredits this interesting mix of sounds to watching cartoons when he grew up, he stated in an interview with DJ Booth.

So it’s like, we kind of went from digicore sounds, and all the little cartoon and video game sounds they were doing back in the day. And then, we just integrated it. Lately, it’s like people have been on the same thing so I don’t even have to tell anybody what I want. They already know what to give me, and it is crazy. The genre is getting bigger and bigger, and that’s really what it’s coming from—what we grew up off of. The sounds we had to watch on TV. Because we had to look for hip-hop. That’s a different channel. The channels we had to watch were Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network. Well, at least where I’m from. That’s what we had to watch. That’s the sound.