Buckshot (rapper)

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Buckshot
Buckshot performing in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Kenyatta Blake
Also known as	Hanif Alwin al-Sadiq Buckshot Shorty The BDI Thug (Beady-Eyed Thug)
Born	(1974-11-19) November 19, 1974 (age 49) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper songwriter record producer
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Nervous Duck Down
Member of	Black Moon Boot Camp Clik Crooklyn Dodgers
Relatives	David Stones (cousin)

Kenyatta Blake (born November 19, 1974),^[1] 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.^[2][3] 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.