When looking behind the music, D/R Period is Darryl Pittman, one of eight children, into a family of musicians from Brownsville, Brooklyn. His mother managed several musical artists, which would intrigue him to pursue the music industry. However more credit is given to his teacher, Stick Evans, (if it sounds familiar it should be he was the notorious James Brown’s drummer), who guided and inspired him to be a musician. In high school D/R Period learned how to arrange music, play the guitar, trumpet, and saxophone. In the late 80’s early 90’s, D/R began to DJ neighborhood parties and learned how to produce. His first project was with C&C Music Factory. This created numerous opportunities for him in the music industry as a producer. In 1994, he started to work with M.O.P. on their album and garnered a hit song “How about some hardcore”. D/R also worked with Positive K, Chakademis & Pliers.