Buckshot (born Kenyatta Blake in Brooklyn, New York) is an underground rapper, famous as the leader of Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik, and the group Black Moon. He has released one solo album, two with producer 9th Wonder, four albums with Black Moon and four albums with the Boot Camp Clik.
Raised in Brownsville, New York, Buckshot a.k.a. Buckshot Shorty, began rapping in neighborhood rhyming ciphers. In high school, he befriended 5ft, DJ Evil...
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Buckshot (born Kenyatta Blake in Brooklyn, New York) is an underground rapper, famous as the leader of Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik, and the group Black Moon. He has released one solo album, two with producer 9th Wonder, four albums with Black Moon and four albums with the Boot Camp Clik.
Raised in Brownsville, New York, Buckshot a.k.a. Buckshot Shorty, began rapping in neighborhood rhyming ciphers. In high school, he befriended 5ft, DJ Evil Dee and Mr. Walt, who would evolve into the super production team Da Beatminerz.
In 1992, Buckshot, 5ft and DJ Evil Dee, formed Black Moon. The trio released the single, "Who Got Da Props?" in 1993, which reached #86 on the Billboard Top 100 charts, landing them a recording deal with Nervous Records. Later that year, Black Moon released their first full-length album, Enta Da Stage.
The album featured appearances by Havoc of Mobb Deep, as well as future Boot Camp Clik members, Tek and Steele of Smif N Wessun.
In 1994, with Dru-Ha, the two left...
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