High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Xavier Dotson, better known as Zaytoven, is an American record producer out of San Francisco, California and was born in Germany on an Army base. He was raised in San Francisco but later moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, he has worked with Gucci Mane extensively, contributing at least one song on every one of his albums, and doing many mixtapes with him. He has also worked with other notable Atlanta artists, such as Soulja Boy Tell `Em, Gorilla Zoe, Young Jeezy and OJ Da Juiceman, and Usher (for the singers top 40 hit "Papers"), and other non-Atlanta artists such as Nicki Minaj, producing hundreds of songs in total. He first started making beats for local San Francisco artists such as Messy Marv and San Quinn. "It was during his time in San Francisco did Zay reach his formative years. He learned to play piano, guitar and organ in the church choir and soon began selling beats to local Bay Area rappers."