Born in Napa, ID,
Adam Drucker, or
Doseone, one of the founders of the group
Themselves (
Jel was the other) and a main player in
Subtle and
cLOUDDEAD, spent much of his youth in Philadelphia and New Jersey perfecting his battle raps. However, after he moved to Cincinnati to attend college, he began focusing more on his poetry and how it could be applied to music. He self-released his first album, 1998's Hemispheres, and the same year began recording as part of
Deep Puddle Dynamics (along with
Jel,
Slug from
Atmosphere, and
Sole and
Alias from Live Poets) for their debut album, The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? In 2000
Themselves released their first album, Them, under the Anticon label that
Dose had helped form, and in 2002 the duo issued
The No Music and later added a third member,
Dax Pierson, on keyboards, theremin, Dr. Sample, and background vocals. Besides working and touring with
Themselves,
Dose has also been involved in projects with
Prefuse 73,
Aesop Rock,
Buck 65, and others. ~ Marisa Brown