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William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972), best known as Large Professor, also as Large Pro and Xtra P, is a New York based hip hop record producer and emcee. He is also best known as a member of the influential underground hip hop group Main Source, and for discovering popular emcee Nas.[1] Mitchell was born in 1972 in Harlem, New York City. He moved, in his early childhood, to Flushing Queens were he was raised. His production career started early in his adolescence. As a young teenager, he would make pause tapes, in which he would pause a beat and blend it in with other sequences. Eventually, he mananged to own a Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard that allowed him to make his beats in the comfort of his own home. He became a protégé of the late Paul C, a record producer and musician, with whom he credits for teaching him virtually everything he knows about record production as well as the associated technology used for making hip-hop music. Paul C was doing production work with Eric B. & Rakim and Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, and then at age 17, Large was given the opportunity to program beats for Eric B. & Rakim's Let the Rhythm Hit Em album while still attending high school. While working with Eric B. & Rakim, he discovered Nas. Nas got a management deal with Serchlite Publishing (headed by MC Serch from former group 3rd Bass) and Large produced three tracks on Nas's debut album Illmatic after he was signed by Columbia Records. His work with Eric B. & Rakim album eventually led him to work on Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo's Wanted: Dead or Alive.