Near Dogg
Near Dogg
Mohammad Hammoud (born February 12, 1997), known professionally as NearDogg Beats / Near Dogg, who started in music at 2008 until now as (Music producer / Beat Maker) of Syrians origin. Near Dogg has decided to start a new journey as a Swedish rapper in 2020. In his music, he represents his nighberhood there he lives, Kronoparken east Karlstad, Sweden. He provides original Hip-Hop instruments for artists (dark vibes / hardcore beats) {Professional / HQ}.
Near Dogg has become one of the biggest beat makers in Middle East 2013-2015 and was a judge in three famous beat makers competitions. Many articles have been published about Near Dogg on different news websites such as MTV Rocks[1], Al Jazeera[2], Vents Magazine[3], Diamond Magazine[4], Bitgog[5], Knnit[6], Medium (website) and several music programs on several radio channels such as Music Talk Show[7] and many else. Near Dogg had the chance to meet in personally many great artists such as The Game (rapper), Lil Jon, Mabel and Kaliffa Karlsson. He also met personally many different celebrities such as Peter Stormare, John Barnes (footballer) and Klara Svensson.
Dr Mattias Lundberg[8]
who is (Research Fellow, Department of Musicology, University of Uppsala, Sweden and Head of Rare Collections and RISM,Swedish National Collections of Music Google Books) has mentioned Near Dogg in an article called 5 Emerging Swedish Rappers Getting Popular [9], then published a whole article about Near Dogg called Near Dogg — from Making Beats to Rapping in Swedish [10]
Early life and career
Near Dogg started first as a beat maker at 2008 in his city Al-Raqqah, Syria. He got popular when he joined forums of arab hip hop at 2011 such as W-394.com and arableaguerap.com. He got rating "Legend Rapper" which is the highest rating at those forums and his music got popular by that time.
He had to move to Alexandria, Egypt at 2013 because of the Syrian Revolution and had the opportunity to keep building his music career. He linked up with the egyption rapper Omar Boflot who is the winner of MTV Middle East Hip Hopna 2008. Then linked up with Arabian Knightz at Cairo, Egypt.
He moved to Sweden at december 2014 to start a new stage in his life. By moving to Sweden he got an opportunity to link up with not only Swedish artists but worldwide and to start new projects in his music career such as producing and making beats. Recently started rapping in Swedish language. His first single called Tar Över is about making a clear message to Swedish hip hop that, Near Dogg is coming hard and will improve his name as a Swedish artist. He's making collaborations with artists worldwide such as recently dropped a music video with D BOY who is a rapper from Congo based on Sweden. Near Dogg produced a track to artist Seraj Al Ameer (R.I.P) at 2014 who was one of the popular Iraqi artist with more than 74 millions views only on his single خليني وياج2 on YouTube, he also produced a track to Tamer Nafar at 2019 who is the first arabian rapper in the world and produced to Ibrahim Basha Nurulez as well. Near Dogg featuring DJ X produced also a track to artist Eric Delshun, it was played on the american radio at 2015 on Producers Corner Show on Music Talks Radio (New Orleans, LA, United States) [11].
Names of artists Near Dogg produced music with:
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Eric Delshun (Memphis, Tennessee USA)
DC The Truth (Washington, D.C. USA)
Esta Da Boss (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
D BOY (Congo)
Tim Granite Of Run Junxion ( KSA & Canada)
Joker Jr (Mecca, KSA)
Al Hevy (Amman, Jordan)
Da ALCz (Palestine)
DJ YASSER (Mecca, KSA)
Tamer Nafar Min Dam (Palestine)
Dee Kay (Damascus, Syria)
Ibrahim Basha NuruleZ (Latakia, Syria)
Adamy (Tripoli, Libya)
Seraj Al Ameer (Baghdad, Iraq)
Ahmed Doski (Baghdad, Iraq)
Steve (Baghdad, Iraq)
Masters Of Art (Baghdad, Iraq)
A U Zi - Killer (Khartoum, Sudan)
Phenomenal Community (Baghdad, Iraq)
Street Boom (Oman)
AsSaSsiN (Kuwait)
R3 (UAE)
... and many more !
Education
Because of the Syrian Revolution Near Dogg was forced to move a lot to different countries until he settled in Sweden 2015. He studies computer science engineering at Halmstad University, Sweden
Discography
Beats Albums
Album Year Antal tracks
COMMANDOS 2018 4
ZOMBIES PLANET 2016 5
A Trip To The Hollow Earth | 2014 5
ArabLeague Beatz Starz 2013 11
The End Of The World 2010 11
Singles
Tar Över 2020
Choose me Feat. D BOY 2020