No he wasn't. Listen to JD's "Turn It Out", Foxy's "My Life" or Nas's "Poppa Was A Playa". None of those sound anything like a D Dot beat.
What about this, sounds like a hitmen-beat.
The whole Hitmen/Bad Boy thing had a lot of ghost-writing, ghost-producing and on going on between each other. It's not far fetched to believe that some idea generation or beat skeletons came from lesser names like Kanye West.
he did bad boy production d-dot got credit for..
n d-dot denies it...
Ma$e Put That In The Universe Years Ago.Mase put Kanye on and discovered Eve