2001–2004: ''Lil' Romeo, Lil' D, and No Limit'' In 2001, Hogan known at the time as Lil' D and Little D was one of the only features on Romeo Miller's debut album, titled after his original alias Lil' Romeo. Also in 2001, D The Business was featured on his cousins Silkk the Shocker's remix single of "That's Kool", featuring Lil’ Romeo and Trina which was the second lead single for the Lil' Romeo album. Later that year, at just 11 years old he released his own debut hit single "Cotton Candy" featuring
Lil’ Romeo executive produced by Master P and distributed by
Priority Records off of his scheduled debut album titled "Meet Me At The Playground". The album was never released. In 2002, during the spring D The Business along with his cousin Romeo skipped school for the road on a 15 date tour at only 12 years old. Later that year he was featured on multiple songs on Romeo's second studio album,
Game Time via
The New No Limit and
Universal Records which included "Clap Your Hands" and the more notable single "Play Like Us" which spawned live TV performances of the song on Nickelodeon's 2002 "TEENick Summer Concert Series" hosted by
Nick Cannon and on the television show
Soul Train. D The Business also featured on the
504 Boyz hit single
Tight Whips off of their second album
Ballers released on December 10, 2002.
2005–2007: Collaborations, Rich Boyz, and Guttar Music In 2005 Lil' D's song "You Don't" was featured on the 504 Boyz
Hurricane Katrina (We Gon' Bounce Back) album. Lil' D and C-Los were part of a street organization called “GUTTA Click” which prompted Master P to launch the Guttar Music Entertainment record label. Also in 2005, Lil D,
Romeo Miller,
Valentino Miller, C-Los and Doug formed the rap group
Rich Boyz and on November 22, 2005, they released their debut album titled
Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us on Guttar Music. Hogan appeared on songs "Sittin’ Low" and "Fitted Cap” on the soundtrack album titled
''God's Gift'' which was Romeo Miller's first album to be classified as
explicit released with his official name changed to Romeo.
2008–2011: Mixtapes, No Limit Forever, Collaborations Black Don &
Lil' D released a compilation mixtape titled “Live From The Gutta Vol. 1”. In 2010, D The Business featured on Romeo's
Patience Is A Virtue Mixtape on the song Feelin Myself with
Will Smith’s nephew K. Smith. On May 25, 2010 at the time still known as Lil' D featured on Romeo Miller’s single entitled "She Bad”. In addition, that year D The Business also performed at the VH1 televised 2010
Hip Hop Honors awards with his cousins
Romeo Miller, Valentino Miller,
Silkk The Shocker, his brother
Black Don, along with
Trina,
Gucci Mane and
Mystikal announced on stage by actress
Taraji P. Henson to honor his cousin
Master P and
No Limit Records. His appearance on the song “I Be Chasing Money” and his single “We Here” were both released on his brother Black Don's mixtape entitled The Scrimmage. In 2011, D The Business would go on a tour with his cousins Romeo Miller,
Master P and
Silkk the Shocker, the tour was titled "No Limit Forever International". On August 19, 2011, D The Business featured on Romeo Miller's
I Am No Limit mixtape and was billed on this project as “
D” after dropping "Lil" from his stage name on songs such as "Rock Wit It”, "Catch Me If You Can", "Drop That", and his brother Black Don's single "Money Flow" with Master P & Romeo Miller. D The Business also featured on Romeo Miller's Maserati Rome Inception Mixtape on the song Phone Sex.
Since 2012: New name, New label L.I.E. Entertainment In 2012, Hogan formed a new independent record label with his brother Black Don titled L.I.E. Entertainment (Loyalty Is Everything) and he also officially changed his stage name to D The Business. On January 5, 2012, D The Business released his breakout single "We So Bout It" featuring
Black Don,
Master P, and
Lil Wayne. On June 28, 2013, D The Business released his debut solo mixtape, From Sidelines 2 Headlines, and on July 17, 2013, released the official video to the single We So Bout It. His second mixtape Loyalty Is Everything, Vol. 1 was released on November 11, 2014, with the songs Sunny Days, On Right Now and Live It Up. In 2017, he released the Lit Nights & Good Mornings EP on May 5, 2017, led by singles Gwap and the song All You Gotta Do (Say Yes). On January 24, 2020, D The Business released the single Flex featuring his cousins
Romeo Miller & Young V. D The Business released the mixtape
Back To Business featuring the singles Fancy and Tonight on March 11, 2022. == Other ventures ==