Performance · Production
Duke Bootee
Duke Bootee is credited on 154 releases across 53 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
154
Pressings credited
53
Albums
5
Decades active
35
In collections
Biography
Edward Gernel Fletcher, known by his stage name Duke Bootee (June 6, 1951 – January 13, 2021), was an American record producer and rapper. Born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, his best known single, "The Message", was written in his basement with Clifton "Jiggs" Chase and was released in 1982 on Sugar Hill Records, featuring rappers Duke Bootee and Melle Mel. The record label marketed the song under the name Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Later, he collaborated again with Melle Mel on the singles "Message II (Survival)", and "New York New York", in which the latter was credited to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. After concluding his music career in the early 1990s, Duke Bootee acquired teaching certification and became an educator in the Plainfield (NJ) Public School District. Later, Duke Bootee was a professor of English at Montclair State and Savannah State Universities. He died January 13, 2021, of end-stage congestive heart failure.
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Credited work
154 releases · 53 albums · active 1982–2021
- Performance · 117
- Production · 53
- Engineering · 24
- Other credits · 23
Studios: Sweet Mountain Studios · Unique Recording · Celebration Recording Studios · Kingdom Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Artists United Against Apartheid
- Word Of Mouth (2)
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
- Meco
- K-ROB
- Stockingcap
- The Masterdon Committee
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