{{BLP sources|date=March 2008}} '''Doug Lazy''' (real name '''Gene Douglas Finley''')<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 315}}</ref> is an American hip hop and dance music producer and DJ from Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p13470|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Doug Lazy|last=Huey|first=Steve|publisher=AMG|accessdate=8 May 2010}}</ref>
Before getting into music, he was a radio DJ known as Mean Gene in his home city. <ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |title=Doug Lazy |url=https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/doug-lazy/77387004 |website=Apple Music |access-date=14 August 2025}}</ref>
Lazy scored a number of hip house hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including three number ones: "Let It Roll", "Let the Rhythm Pump", and "H.O.U.S.E.".<ref>{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=153}}</ref> In 1990, Ben E. King and Bo Diddley featuring Lazy recorded a rap version of the Monotones' 1958 hit song "Book of Love" for the soundtrack of the movie ''Book of Love''.
==Discography== ===Albums=== *''Doug Lazy Gettin' Crazy'' (1990), Atlantic Records
===Singles=== *"Let It Roll" (1989), Atlantic Records ^ *"Let the Rhythm Pump" (1989), Atlantic Records *"Can't Hold Back (U No)" (1990), Atlantic Records *"Can't Get Enough" (1990), ZYX Records *"H.O.U.S.E." (1990), Atlantic Records *"Din Daa Daa's Doin It" (1991), Cardiac Records *"Ride on the Rhythm" (1991), Atlantic Records ^^
^Credited to Raze presents Doug Lazy
^^Credited to Little Louie & Marc Anthony
==See also== *List of number-one dance hits (United States) *List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
==References== {{Reflist}}
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