Inside Mike Dean's Quarantine Escapism

Houston-born producer Mike Dean is the hip-hop world's version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone in the music industry today who he hasn't either worked with or who his sound hasn't touched. For nearly three decades, Dean has been a part of some of the most important movements in rap.He helped shape the sound of the Geto Boys and Scarface in the early 1990s. That connection with the legendary rap collective from his hometown eventually led him to Kanye West dur...