Buckshot

This article is about the American rapper; for the shotgun ammunition see shotgun .

Buckshot (2009)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Survival Skills (with KRS-One )   US 62 October 03, 2009 (2 weeks)

Buckshot (born November 19, 1974 in Brooklyn , New York City ; real life Kenyatta Blake ) is an American rapper and member of the groups Black Moon and Boot Camp Clik . He is assigned to the genres gangsta rap and hardcore rap and publishes his music on the label Duck Down Records , of which he is co-founder. Its name refers to shotgun pellets, referred to in English as "buckshot". He is also known as Buckshot Shorty and The BDI Thug .

Career

Buckshot grew up in Brownsville , New York and started rapping there. In high school he became friends with the MC 5ft and the later founders of Beatminerz , DJ Evil Dee and Mr. Walt. With the first two mentioned, he founded the group Black Moon and published as part of this his first works. Until then he was at home on the Nervous Records label, but left it in 1994 together with Dru Ha and founded Duck Down Records . In addition to himself, he signed the groups Heltah Skeltah and Originoo Gunn Clappaz , among others .

In 1996 he then worked with Tupac Shakur , Dru Ha and Smif-N-Wessun on an album entitled "One Nation". Although it was never released, Shakur nicknamed him "The BDI Thug" during this time, which he later used as the name for his solo debut album.

In the following year he formed the artist collective Boot Camp Clik with other musicians , released the album "For the People" with them, as well as another work with Black Moon in 1999 and finally, on October 26th of this year, his first album, the 2003 one appeared in a longer version.

After further recordings as part of his groups, he teamed up with producer 9th Wonder in 2005 and brought out "Chemistry" with him in 2005, a remake of Black Moon's "Alter the Chemistry", and in 2008 "The Formula".

Another collaboration album followed in 2009 with “Survival Skills”, but this time with KRS-One, which is now under contract with Duck Down .

Discography

Albums

solo

• 1999: The BDI Thug

With 9th Wonder

• 2005: Chemistry
• 2008: The Formula

With KRS-One

• 2009: Survival Skills

Web links

• Official MySpace page
• Buckshot at Allmusic (English)
• Buckshot aka The BDI Thug. Duck Down , archived from the original on June 17, 2009 ; accessed on July 11, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Billboard : KRS-One - Chart history