Large Professor

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William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972), an American hip hop rapper and record producer also known as Large Pro and Extra P. Located in New York City, he is best known as a founding member of the underground hip hop band Main Source and as a mentor and frequent collaborator of Nas.

Large Professor #13 on About.com's list of the Top 25 Hip-Hop Producers.

Early life and education

William Paul Mitchell was born in Harlem, New York City, and grew in Flushing, Queens, New York City, where he attended John Bowne High School.

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Career

With two turntables, a Casio SK-1 sampler, and a pause-tape cassette, Professor Paul C taught him how to use an E-mu SP-1200. During his pause tape phase, he discovered that some of his techniques were different than those of other designers. "I was trying to capture it from a different angle of the record." When dudes were just catching it from the one kick, I'd say it would come from the hi-hat. I'll be flipping it from my third hi-hat and flipping it."

He joined Main Source in 1989, which also included Toronto natives K-Cut and Sir Scratch. Eric B. Large made three albums in 1990. Let the Beat Beat 'Em, by Rakim's Tomb, as well as "In the Ghetto." He took the initiative of making "In the Ghetto" from a cassette tape of sample ideas created by Paul C. for Rakim.

Breaking Atoms, a large collection of songs that was first published in 1991, was released on Main Source. It included hits like "Just Hangin' Out," "Looking at the Front Door," and Nas' first public appearance on a track called "Live at the Barbeque," as well as Akinyele and Joe Fatal. Large Professor Now Considers "Looking at the Front Door" as one of his career's best emotional performances, with later claiming, "That's a deep record." I was eighteen years old at that time in life. It was a boy with a pure heart, just writing, and throwing his soul out there for the world."

Their popularity in 1992 brought them to the forefront of "Fakin' the Funk," a track on the White Men Can't Jump motion-picture soundtrack. Large and Main Sources with business rifts parted ways and Big eventually parted with Geffen Records.

During and after his tenure with Main Source, he produced a number of tracks for Nas, Busta Rhymes, Masta Ace, Tragedy Khadafi, Big Daddy Kane, A Tribe Called Quest, and others from the 1990s. He did a substantial amount of work on several projects for other artists during this period. He created Akinyele's entire Vagina Diner album in 1993, which saw limited commercial success at the time. Despite the fact that the album debuted well, The Source later wrote an article critizing the song "I Luh Huh," in which Akinyele considers pushing his pregnant mother down the stairs as a form of abortion. The album's success was harmed by the outrage surrounding the controversial lyrics. Akinyele wrote a response in the next issue defending the song and pointing out that the songs' violent concepts are just thoughts, and he ends the story by saying, "Just cause I talk this shit don't get me wrong."

Not long after leaving Main Source, a large Professor created "Keep It Rollin'" on A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders. It was a pivotal point in his career that brought him to a new degree of recognition and recognition as a solo artist.

Large Professor produced three of Nas's ten songs on Nas' Illmatic ("Halftime", "One Time 4 Your Mind," and "It Ain't Hard to Tell"), the majority of any producer involved with the album. The "Halftime" beat was actually intended for him in a Busta Rhymes interview. Although he loved the beat, he didn't end up using it and later regretted it after hearing "Halftime." "I mean, we just wanted to put something gritty out there to the world," Large Pro said of the song's production in an interview, and those drums—that's what it was at the time." Because we grew up with Hip Hop tapes and things like the fidelity of these tapes, it was that gritty, muffled out. He was so instrumental in the development of Illmatic that Nas wanted to give him an executive producer's credit, but he refused.

Large Professor Gordon Brown's debut solo album The LP for Geffen Records was released in 1996. It was promoted by the singles "The Mad Scientist" and "I Juswannachill." The album was shelved and then released as a bootleg version in 2002 after many delays. The album's official release date came out in 2009, thirteen years after it was supposed to be released date.

Large Pro released "You're Da Man" and "Rewind" on Nas' Stillmat's Stillmatic album in 2001. While Nastradamus was still working on Nastradamus a few years ago, he was first on Nastradamus for "You're a Man." Nas selected the beat but decided against it for a later project. For his 1st Class album, the large professor used the same vocal sample from the chorus's song "The Man."

The original members of Main Source performed together for the first time in nearly ten years on December 22, 2002, at a Toronto concert.

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