To many of his big-name clients - Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and Mack 10 among them - Fredwreck is the go-to producer when preparing a new album. While most of his peers hail from South Central LA, Fredwreck's roots lie farther east. "My father was born in the Israeli part of Jerusalem, my mother was born in Bir Zeit," says Fredwreck, born Farid Nassar. "[In Jerusalem] my father got to work in a machine shop. During those times General Motors was looking for machinists so that's how he got to come to America." Fredwreck's father left after the 1967 Middle East war and managed to bring the rest of his family from Palestine to settle in the apartment block he had purchased in Flint, Michigan. The US-born Fredwreck recalls how parties back in Flint usually ended with each family member playing an instrument, his mother on the tabla, a cousin on the violin. In those days, he says, buying a radio was beyond their budget, so music had to be made at home. "People were always around making music and playing music. That's where I think I got it from." Fast forward through breakdancing at high school, creating mix tapes and being a disc jockey, to the moment when Segal, Dr Dre's engineer, passed some of Fredwreck's music to that architect of West Coast hip-hop. Dre liked what he heard and Fredwreck's career took off. Along with music, there is another recurring theme in Fredwreck's life. Read the full article over on AL-JAZEERA.