Album Notes

Hired Gun is a Jersey born emcee representing the borough of Brooklyn since 2000. An educator, writer, emcee and event organizer, Hired Gun is a man who wears many hats within this hip hop culture. A member of the ESP massif since 1996, "HG" continues to collaborate with Mista Mayday as an emcee with Frequency Activism. In addition HG is a co-founder of Say Word Entertainment, a new york based Hip Hop event company, and one third of the group 3rd Party.Hired Gun also works as a solo artist, and is a after school mentor/teaching artist for UrbanArtBeat (www.urbanartbeat.org) and Urban Arts Partnership (www.urbanarts.org). Gun is a child of the golden era, and his socio-political commentary,dense lyricism and high energy performance are a reflection of that.

Hired Gun has performed all over the country doing both hip hop and drum bass as far west as Minnesota, as north as Vermont and as south as Virginia. Hired Gun has been blessed to share the stage with such legends as the Last Poets, Fat Lip of the Pharcyde, Rob Swift, and Slick Rick. If you're in need of music with meaning, high energy, and positivity...and you can find him (which isn't hard) maybe you can book..the Hired Gun.