The album that introduced Tre Dizzle as a solo artist—blending authentic lyricism, West Coast roots, Southern influence, and the independent spirit that defines Dammit Boy Productions
Born in Anaheim, California and raised between Southern California and Southeast Texas, Tre Dizzle is an artist, DJ, producer, recording engineer, filmmaker and founder of Dammit Boy Productions. Active since the 1990s, his career connects Southern California’s independent hip-hop underground with Houston’s music community through recording, production, live performance, visual media and decades of independent hip-hop documentation.
Tre Dizzle’s connection to entertainment began long before his recording career. As a child, he performed through Al Fann’s Theatrical Ensemble, gaining early experience onstage and learning the relationship between a performer and an audience. By age 12, he had moved behind the turntables as DJ for the California rap group the PH Boys. Those early experiences established two sides of his creative identity that would continue throughout his career: performing in front of an audience and shaping the music and presentation behind it.
During the 1990s, he began recording under the name TreJhee. By 1996, TreJhee was part of Flatline, working alongside Sir Myle during a formative period of writing, recording and production. The group developed material through Flatline Productions and prepared the album Come And Take A Ride. Original Flatline Records promotional materials advertised the project for a planned March 18, 1997 release, but the album was ultimately never commercially released. Surviving artwork, promotional sheets and song materials preserve this early chapter of Tre’s recording history.
Flatline’s history also extended to live performance. Archival photographs document an Old School Reunion appearance featuring Flatline members Bogard, TreJhee, Sir Myle, Ric Shorty and Lil X.
Following the Flatline period, Tre’s path became increasingly connected to Southern California’s independent hip-hop community. As Tre Dizzle, he became a member of the original Grim Reality Entertainment roster alongside JP tha Hustler, Insane Poetry, Jay Spark, Lowdown, FЯK$ and Compton Cisco.
Those relationships became an important part of his recording history. Tre Dizzle appears with members of that circle on recordings including “We Got It,” while his collaboration with Insane Poetry on “Peekin’ Thru Ya Back” later appeared on Fallen From Grace. Several relationships established during this period continued beyond GRE and became part of the creative network surrounding the formative years of Dammit Boy Productions.
Tre’s development during this period was not limited to being a recording artist. His professional experience expanded into the business side of the record industry. He worked as a sales representative for Southwest Wholesale Records & Tapes and later as Sales Director for All Rise Records. Surviving business cards and promotional materials from these companies remain part of his personal archive and document his experience with record sales, distribution and label operations.
During the post-GRE period, Tre was also a DJ and operational business owner with In The Groove Entertainment & Promotions. This period served as an important bridge between his earlier California music-industry experience and the beginnings of what would develop into Dammit Boy Productions.
Rather than approaching independent music solely from the perspective of an artist, Tre had accumulated experience across multiple sides of the industry: performing, DJing, songwriting, production, recording, promotion, sales and distribution. That combination became part of the foundation for his next chapter.
Tre Dizzle founded Dammit Boy Productions, developing the company as an independent platform for recording, production, artist development, visual media and live-event documentation. The company’s earliest documented catalog emerged from its Southern California chapter before DBP later established its Houston presence.
Physical archive materials document Dammit Boy Productions operating by 2006. Compton Cisco’s Gangsta’s Zone — Dammit Boy Mixtape Volume 1 identifies Tre Dizzle as the project’s recording and mix engineer at Dammit Boy Studios. The release also captures the continuation of relationships with artists including Compton Cisco, FЯK$, Insane Poetry and others from Tre’s earlier California network.
Tre followed with Dammit Boy Mixtape Volume 2: From Under Tha Underground, expanding his role as both artist and producer. The project includes recordings such as “Peekin Thru Ya Back,” “My Life,” “The Answer,” “Hay Hay,” the title track and “Encore.” The early Dammit Boy mixtape series developed into a wider platform for artists and collaborators, establishing a foundation for the company’s growing catalog.
Tre’s work with Blue Chip Entertainment also became part of this period, including collaborations with J-No, J-Roq and Big Ro. His recording history crossed multiple independent circles while Dammit Boy Productions continued developing its own identity.
After DBP’s California beginnings, Tre Dizzle brought the company into a new chapter in Houston, Texas. The move expanded his work beyond recording into extensive performance, event and video documentation.
Through DBTV and Dammit Boy Productions, Tre became both a participant in and documentarian of Houston’s independent hip-hop community. His work placed him around artists, DJs, promoters, venues and events across the city while preserving performances and interviews that would later form a substantial DBP video archive.
His relationship with Houston hip-hop figure Wickett Crickett became particularly important during this period. Tre worked alongside Wickett through performances, Roc-D-Mic events, interviews and community events while continuing his own work as an artist and DJ. These years also connected DBP with a wide range of Houston artists while maintaining relationships established during Tre’s California years.
Tre continued recording throughout the Houston era, appearing on projects by DBP artists and collaborators while working behind the scenes as a producer and recording engineer. His catalog includes collaborations with Jah’s Reflection, FЯK$, K.V., Compton Cisco, Boleggz, Mr. Kutsum, Lu-T, Mistah Merk and numerous others.
Tre Dizzle’s first official solo album, The Birth of the Brink, was commercially released in 2018. The 16-track project brought together different chapters of his musical history and included appearances by Wickett Crickett, Spliph Lewis, Mr. Kutsum, FЯK$, Jah’s Reflection, K.V., Mistah Merk, Lu-T, Compton Cisco and MC Eiht.
The album opens with “Crickett’s Prayer,” featuring Wickett Crickett, before moving through records including “I Gotta Get Paid,” “Niggas & Flies,” “I Can’t Sleep,” “Space Invaders,” “Me & Hip-Hop (Remix),” “We Goin’ Thru Thangs” and “Big Black Chucks.” The project represents Tre Dizzle not simply as a solo artist, but as an artist whose music reflects decades of relationships developed across California and Texas.
Tre Dizzle’s career has never existed exclusively behind a microphone. His work encompasses DJing, songwriting, music production, recording and mixing, photography, videography, creative direction and independent music entrepreneurship.
That combination has also made preservation an increasingly important part of his work. The Dammit Boy Productions archive contains recordings, performances, interviews, photographs, flyers, physical releases and other materials documenting both DBP and artists whose paths crossed the company.
The archive reaches back beyond Dammit Boy Productions itself. Surviving Flatline Records material, music-industry business records and early promotional artifacts preserve pieces of Tre’s career that predate DBP and provide a documented bridge between TreJhee, Tre Dizzle and the company he eventually built.
Tre Dizzle remains active as an artist and producer while continuing to develop Dammit Boy Productions and restore its archive. Current and developing music includes Dreams Don’t Expire, the collaborative 7 Piece project with Jah’s Reflection, and the Doobie Brovaz projects Sativa and Indica with FЯK$.
His current work brings together the different roles that have defined his career: artist, DJ, producer, engineer, filmmaker, entrepreneur and archivist. From TreJhee and Flatline to the original Grim Reality Entertainment roster, the beginnings of Dammit Boy Productions in Southern California and its later Houston chapter, Tre Dizzle’s story reflects an independent career built across multiple eras of underground hip-hop.
Rather than separating that history from his current work, Tre continues to preserve it while creating the next chapter—connecting the music, people and footage accumulated over decades with new releases and the evolving Dammit Boy Productions archive.
