Buckshot

About

Few rappers can claim they helped shape an entire regional sound, but Buckshot did exactly that. As the frontman of Black Moon, he dropped Enta da Stage in 1993, a debut that landed like a grenade in the New York underground and still gets name checked as a cornerstone of East Coast hip hop. That raw, dark aesthetic set the template for the whole Boot Camp Clik collective, the Brooklyn supergroup he helped build around Duck Down Music, the label he co founded with Drew Friedman. Over the years Buckshot has kept busy across a string of collaborative projects, most notably three albums with producer 9th Wonder, starting with Chemistry in 2005, and a joint record with KRS One called Survival Skills in 2009. Black Moon returned as recently as 2019 with Rise of da Moon, proving Buckshot has never really stopped moving.