Fanatik J

Fanatik J is an American hip hop producer from Los Angeles, California known for his role in the production of The Return of Dr. Octagon.
History
In 1996, emcee Keith Thornton released the album Dr. Octagonecologyst under the name Dr. Octagon. Thornton later expressed some frustration with the "Dr. Octagon" nickname, and introduced the character of Dr. Dooom on the album First Come, First Served, which featured a track in which the character murdered Dr. Octagon. Thornton had intended to move away from the character, but later decided to record another album under the Octagon name.
In 2002, Thornton announced The Resurrection of Dr. Octagon, a proposed sequel to Dr. Octagonecologyst, that would reintroduce the character. After shopping around demos for the proposed album, Thornton signed a contract with CMH Records to release the album. Preceding the production of the album, Thornton told Rolling Stone that "this album is fine-tuned with instruments, deeper and more spaced out. The last one was cool, but I didn't like it because it wasn't funky. When I don't work on a project, it's not that funky. When I do work on it, it's funky, and it has soul to it...I'm proud of my funky sounds right now."<ref name="Moayeri"/> Fanatik J was not named as the album's producer, with Thornton stating that with Dr. Octagonecologyst, "I chose to bring Automator in to work on the project. I gave Automator his introduction to the music industry, gave him his first start. With this , I will make another person and create another star."<ref name="Moayeri"/>
As production on the album was underway, Thornton had a falling out with Fanatik J over contract rights.<ref name="Downs"/> Thornton referred to Fanatik J as "greedy" and stated that "He went out of his level of producer's ranking. Maybe he thought he was an overnight Quincy Jones, that he was the Automator."<ref name="Downs"/> Fanatik J engaged in a legal battle with CMH over contractual terms that did not give him artistic control over remixes, stating that he wanted to prevent the album's release.<ref name="Downs"/> The resulting album, The Return of Dr. Octagon, did not contain any of the work created by Fanatik J, who referred to the album as the "evil sibling" of his collaborations with Thornton.<ref name="Downs"/>

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