Buckshot
Kenyatta Blake (born November 19, 1974), known professionally as Buckshot, is an American rapper from Brooklyn, New York, best known as a frontman of hip-hop groups Black Moon and Boot Camp Clik. He rose to prominence with Black Moon's debut 1993 album Enta da Stage, which is critically acclaimed and influential in hip-hop. He is a founder of Duck Down Music record label with Drew "Dru-Ha" Friedman. He has released one solo studio album – three with producer 9th Wonder, one with KRS-One, four albums with Black Moon and four albums with the Boot Camp Clik. He is known for his line, "Straight from Crooklyn, better known as Brooklyn" (from Who Got da Props?) which features prominently on two songs by the Crooklyn Dodgers.
Genre: underground-hip-hop, east-coast-hip-hop, boom-bap
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Top Tracks
- Turnstyle
- Da God
- Cardiac
- So Damn Tuff
- Die Hard (feat. Buckshot, Erick Sermon & Rahzel)
- The Now or Never
- 2009 Pt. 2
- Go Around
- Double Homicide - Deleted Movie Scene Rapstrumental
- Murder Game
- Hustle & Grind
- Hustle & Grind - Wyze Intellect Remix
- À la vie, à la mort
- Money Makes the World Go Round
- I Don't Know Why
- Out of Town
- U Wonderin
- Birdz Fly the Coup
- No Comparison
- Food For Thought
Albums (17)
- BDI Thug (1999-01-01)
- BDI Thug (1999-10-22)
- Survival Skills (2009-01-01)
- Survival Skills (2009-05-26)
- Survival Skills (2009-09-15)
- En Alerte (2011)
- The Solution (2012-11-13)
- The Solution (2012-11-13)
- Backpack Travels (2014-01-01)
- BackPack Travels (2014-06-24)
- BackPack Travels (2014-06-24)
- BackPack Travels (2014-06-24)
- BackPack Travels (2014-06-24)
- BackPack Travels (2014-06-24)
- Hey (2022-05-13)
- I Am The Boss (2022-05-20)
- Come Back Like This (2022-12-16)
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Popularity-0 recordings of Buckshot in everplay, described from supplier metadata.