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Mark Guglielmo

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Mark Guglielmo
Born
Mark Guglielmo

1970 (age 5556)
Queens, New York, U.S.
Other nameVesuveo · Manifest
EducationHaverford College (BA History, 1992) · Université Paul Valéry
Occupations
  • Artist
  • painter
  • rapper
  • record producer
  • songwriter
  • writer
Years active1992–present
Known forLayered collage painting · Large-scale photo-collage · The Anonymous · Vesuveo
Musical career
GenresUnderground hip-hop · Alternative hip-hop · Conscious hip-hop
LabelSurvivor Soul Music · Nightglow Music · GoodVibe Recordings · Gramofix Records
Websitemarkguglielmo.com

Mark Guglielmo (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist, rapper, and record producer. His practice spans visual art, music, and writing, unified by a methodology drawn from hip-hop sampling, to examine the human psyche, identity, power, migration, and belonging. His work has been exhibited at the United Nations, the New York State Museum, and the Loveland Museum, among other institutions.

As Vesuveo — a play on his middle name, Vesuvio — he co-founded the underground hip-hop group The Anonymous, whose 1998 single "Green and Gold" featuring Eminem reached No. 9 on the U.S. Rap Radio Charts and No. 28 on the Gavin New Mainstream Rap chart.[1][2] He contributed an essay to the 2003 Routledge anthology Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America.

Early life and education

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Guglielmo was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, part of a large blue-collar Southern Italian-American family with roots in the Campania and Basilicata regions of Italy — in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that inspired his stage name Vesuveo.[3] An early formative influence was his paternal grandmother, who discovered painting in her sixties after raising eleven children, maintaining an active studio practice in her Flushing home.

Regular visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, immersion in the burgeoning hip-hop of 1980s New York, and DJ Red Alert's Friday night mix-shows on WRKS-FM shaped his aesthetic sensibilities — and his earliest creative expressions.[3] It was in a high school darkroom photography class that he fell in love with making his own images and saw a reproduction of David Hockney's Pearblossom Hwy, which later sparked his first experiments in photo-collage.[4] He attended Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, spending the 1990–91 academic year at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France, and received a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1992.[4]

Visual art practice

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Guglielmo's visual art practice centers on large-scale layered figurative works synthesizing painting, collage, and photography. His influences include David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Kerry James Marshall, Vincent van Gogh, and Frida Kahlo while his works incorporate oil and acrylic paint, cut paper, fabric, gold leaf, glitter, and corrugated steel.[3][5] He creates his photo-collages by assembling hundreds of 4×6-inch photographs taken from multiple angles and taping them together by hand in his studio to produce multi-perspective compositions — a process he has described as a visual equivalent of hip-hop sampling.[5]

Shards of Illusion (2006–2013)

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His first mature body of work, Shards of Illusion, was a series of large-scale landscape photo-collages created between 2006 and 2013 using chromogenic prints from 35mm film negatives, with subjects ranging from natural and urban landscapes across New York, New England, Washington, D.C., and the Dominican Republic. Writing in the Valley Advocate, critic Tom Sturm described the photomontages as taking "pieces from familiar imagery and rearranging them into reconstructions that seem to channel focus or power."[6] The series was presented as a two-person exhibition with artist Toby Barnes at A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton (June 2013), supported by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council, and documented in a short film by Northampton Open Media.[7]

Cubaneo (2015–2017)

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His Cubaneo series developed across three research trips to Cuba — photographing in Santiago de Cuba, Baracoa, Havana, Viñales, Cienfuegos, and Trinidad de Cuba — producing 18 large-scale photo-collage portraits of people he met on his journey, with accompanying audio interviews he conducted in Spanish and field recordings capturing the sounds of street life.[8] The solo exhibition opened at A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton (2017), and then traveled to Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston (2017); the Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado (2018); the Grubbs Gallery, Williston Northampton School, Easthampton (2018);[9] and von Auersperg Gallery, Deerfield Academy (2019). A photo-collage from the series, El Pintor Lincoln Camué | The Painter Lincoln Camué (2015, Santiago de Cuba, 50 × 94 inches), was licensed for the cover of Jeremy Wolfe's Sensation and Perception, Fifth Edition (Oxford University Press, 2017).[10]

The body of work received substantial critical attention. Writing in Art New England, critic Olivia Kiers described the work as offering "an alternate vision for what an American photographer traveling to Cuba could achieve," noting that Guglielmo gave his Cuban subjects "a level of agency and complexity usually absent in American photography."[11] In a separate review for Big Red & Shiny, Kiers described the photo-mosaics as approaching "analytic cubism," with "simultaneity" as a central theme and the compositions as "a choreographic achievement."[12] Writing in the Greenfield Recorder, critic Trish Crapo observed that the photo-mosaics "exude an uncanny sense of movement — it's as if the individual images are stop-action video clips."[13]

Coverage also appeared in Take Magazine, the Bay State Banner, the Valley Advocate, and the Daily Hampshire Gazette, among others.[14][5] Guglielmo was also interviewed about the work by art critic Brainard Carey on WYBC Yale Radio and by host Raquel Obregon on NEPM's Tertulia.[15][8]

Spirits in the Land (2019–2020)

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Comprising seven large-scale works, Spirits in the Land grew out of a 2019 journey to Sicily and marked a formal turning point in his practice. Five years earlier, Guglielmo had started to paint, and here for the first time applied that medium directly onto his photo-collage assemblages, integrating painted portraits of Southern Italians sourced from archival photographs.[16] His process also reflects the influence of American figurative artist Whitfield Lovell and Sicilian artist Andrea Chisesi, whom Guglielmo met on his trip.[17] While there, he photographed landscapes and cityscapes in Palermo, Ortigia, Siracusa, Scopello, Erice, and Trapani.

Thematically, the project addresses memory, vulnerability, migration, and the imprinted legacies of his ancestors on the land they inhabited. "I superimpose their portraits onto these photo-collages in ways that would make you feel like they're ghosts, almost like they're spirits," Guglielmo told The Reminder in 2022. "It's almost like bringing them home." Individual works — including The Portal (75 × 75 inches), Exodus: Harbinger of Things to Come (a 48 × 192-inch triptych), and The Wail (after Letizia Battaglia) — were exhibited as a solo show at the Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont (May–June 2022), where the work was selected for the May 2022 "Best Photo Picks" by the photography review publication What Will You Remember?[18][19]

Portraits of My People (2021–2025)

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His subsequent series, Portraits of My People, consists of life-size painted portraits of his ancestors, inspired by family photographs and public domain archival images of Southern Italian immigrants newly arrived in the United States.[20] The collection examines Italian-American identity, the historical construction of whiteness, and the politics of assimilation, while responding to the near-absence of Italian-American subjects in major museum collections.[4] It was mounted as a solo exhibition at the Barn Door Gallery, Northampton Center for the Arts (2025)[21] and the United Nations, New York (2025),[22] and in group shows at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut (2023);[23] Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut (2025);[24][25] and Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts (2025).[26]

New England Public Media's Connecting Point featured Guglielmo's work in two television segments in 2022.[3] In 2019, in conjunction with his Cubaneo exhibition at Deerfield Academy, he delivered a TEDx talk in conversation with Dr. Wilson Valentín-Escobar.[27] His work is held in the permanent collections of Emory Healthcare (Atlanta), the City of Loveland (Colorado).[28] His public art includes a permanent two-part photo-collage mural at the Chilson Recreation Center, Loveland, Colorado, completed as lead artist.[28]

Published writing

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Guglielmo contributed the essay "The Front Lines: Hip-Hop, Life, and the Death of Racism" to Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America, edited by his sister Jennifer Guglielmo — a historian and professor at Smith College — and Salvatore Salerno (Routledge, New York, 2003), publishing it under the alias Manifest.[29] The volume, praised by Spike Lee and Noel Ignatiev, has become a standard text in Italian-American studies. The essay was subsequently translated into Italian and republished by Il Saggiatore, one of Italy's foremost literary presses, as "In Prima Linea: L'Hip-Hop, La Vita e La Morte del Razzismo" in Gli Italiani Sono Bianchi? Come l'America ha costruito la razza (Milan, 2006).[30]

His brother Thomas A. Guglielmo, a historian at George Washington University who also contributed a piece to the anthology, authored White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2003). Guglielmo's painting In Honor of Sally Hemings (2021) was licensed for inclusion in A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing, a digital archive co-directed by his sister Jennifer Guglielmo with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Smith College.[31][32]

Music career

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Growing up during the golden age of hip-hop just a few miles north of its birthplace, Guglielmo's early musical influences include Run-DMC, Eric B. & Rakim, and Boogie Down Productions. In the late 1980s, after meeting as freshmen roommates at Haverford College, he and Andrew Zinn (Zinndeadly) — a producer from Cleveland, Ohio, who had grown up inspired by New Order and post-punk — began making music together, hosting a college radio show, and deejaying parties.[33]

Vertigo and Swells of Abstract (1993–1995)

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Operating initially under the name Vertigo, Guglielmo and Zinn connected with Jabari Gray (Able) — a rapper from Oakland, California who had recently arrived at the University of Pennsylvania — after Gray called the number on a DJ-for-hire flyer Guglielmo had posted on campus. They began cutting demos and attracting attention in Philadelphia's hip-hop scene.[33] Writing in the Philadelphia City Paper, poet and critic Major Jackson described their demo as "...challenging the boundaries of what we expect to be hip-hop. The lyrics are there; flowing, issuing forth from the mouths of Vertigo like a faucet," situating their sound alongside De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Souls of Mischief.[34] In 1994, Guglielmo and Gray won the Close-Up Rap or Roll songwriting contest, whose finals were held at New York City's Grand Nightclub, with host Bill Bellamy in attendance — a result noted in Black Beat magazine.[35]

Working out of a basement studio at 219 Race Street in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood, the group spent sixteen months writing and recording before self-releasing their debut Swells of Abstract (1995) on cassette. Rap Sheet's "Representing" column called Vertigo "purely refreshing, creative hip hop" and "classy."[36] BAM magazine compared their album to Digable Planets, Jamiroquai, and Snoop Dogg.[37] Through Gray's connection with West Coast producer Mumbles (Aceyalone), the group swapped demos with Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark of Jurassic 5, setting the stage for a move to Los Angeles.

Moonshine and Weep No More (1996–1997)

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In mid-1995, the group relocated to Venice, California and started performing anywhere that would have them. Their first show in Los Angeles that fall, at the Natural Fudge Company in Hollywood, drew a single audience member. Determined, they built a following playing hole-in-the-wall clubs, open mics, and pay-to-play talent shows, eventually headlining a standing-room-only set at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip a year later. Adopting the name Moonshine, they released their second full-length Weep No More (1996) on Nightglow Music / Arcane Records.[33]

A turning point came when LA fixture DJ Drez spun their first 12-inch single, "The Sad Sombrero Song" b/w "Backstreet Gods," mixed on blown-out speakers they'd found on the street, at an Inland Empire rave — the dance floor cleared. Recognizing their error, they booked time at a proper recording studio and released a definitive version of the album, adding three new songs.[33]

Rap Pages reviewed the album on its October 1996 release, calling it "an underground classic" and praising Able and Vesuveo as "talented rhymers — more whisper than scream, à la Trugoy, but generous in bob-and-weave."[38] Cash Box named it Pick of the Week, describing the album as "a bodacious break from hip hop convention" recorded with "a chamber orchestra performance-art influence."[39] BRE Magazine called it "refreshing and invigorating," praising every cut as "innovative."[40] Subculture magazine described it as "an independent gem."[41] The album featured guest appearances from Cut Chemist, DJ Mark Luv, DJ Drez, Marti Nikko, and others. Following its release, Drez joined the group as their live DJ and close collaborator, adding scratches to their subsequent records.

The Anonymous and Green and Gold (1998–present)

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In the fall of 1998, the group adopted their new and final moniker, The Anonymous, and released Green and Gold (Nightglow Music / GoodVibe Recordings — initially as a vinyl EP, then as a CD LP), featuring Eminem, Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples, Divine Styler, Medusa, Living Legends, The Grouch, Erule, and Awol One, among others. The Eminem collaboration came about when Guglielmo set up a makeshift booth on the Venice Beach boardwalk after quitting his restaurant job to market the group's music, where he encountered Eminem's manager, who suggested they work together the next time Eminem was in town.[42]

The title track was written and recorded in Guglielmo's home studio in a bungalow off a Venice side street — hours after Eminem lost the 1997 Rap Olympics emcee battle in Los Angeles, where his demo tape would begin its journey to Dr. Dre just weeks later, marking his rise to fame.[42] The bungalow had also served as a filming location for The Dude's house in the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski just months prior.[43] The handwritten Eminem lyric sheet — written on the back of Guglielmo's restaurant résumé — was sold as Lot 81 at Sotheby's Hip-Hop 50 auction in 2023.[42]

In October 1998, "Green and Gold" reached No. 9 on the U.S. Rap Radio Charts and No. 28 on the Gavin New Mainstream Rap chart.[1][2] In a 2003 feature ranking Eminem's best guest appearances, Rolling Stone awarded "Green and Gold" four stars, calling it "old-school Eminem at his best, with a tough beat and clever rhymes" and listing it first among collaborations from Anonymous to 50 Cent.[44] In 2013, the magazine named the collaboration one of eleven revealing moments from Eminem's early days.[45] XXL reviewer Kim Osorio — later the magazine's Editor-in-Chief — wrote that the record "breaks down more barriers for the left coast's underground scene and introduces The Anonymous as a couple of its finest representatives," noting that Vesuveo's "Italian heritage and Venice residence allows him to scream on mainstream rappers: 'You be a mere facsimile / Thinking y'all from Italy / But I'm the goomba and I'm working hard at my craft.'"[46][47] Muzik awarded it five stars, calling it "a beautifully produced (crisp, musical and melodic) EP" and noting that the two Dr. EZ's Cool Fantastic posse cuts featured "some of the cream of the left coast underground. Phenomenal."[48]

"Cool Fantastic," a two-part sixteen-emcee recording, was the brainchild of DJ Drez, with Guglielmo rapping on both parts and producing, composing, recording, and mixing Part II.[49][50] Released as the group's first single off the album, the song reached No. 1 on the HITS U.S. Underground Rap Charts on July 31, 1998.[51][52] URB called it "mandatory listening requirement for all inhaling underground oxygen," singling out Part II as having "one of the most elaborate beats I've heard this year; the components evolve like living organisms."[52]

DJ Mark Luv (The Pharcyde, Soul Assassins, Zulu Nation) returned to contribute scratches, going head-to-head with Drez on the Vesuveo-produced "Dedicated," an ode to the hip-hop DJ, while backing the group up at several shows, including a set at Project Blowed in Leimert Park. As The Anonymous, Guglielmo shared the stage with KRS-One, Biz Markie, the Black Eyed Peas, Cutty Ranks, Channel Live, Dilated Peoples, Medusa, and Rock Steady Crew.

In 1999, the group released their fourth project, Dedicated, on vinyl, helping to establish GoodVibe as a significant independent hip-hop label with albums by Bahamadia, Mystic, Declaime, Medusa, Chops, and Slum Village's J Dilla-produced Fantastic, Vol. 2.[53] Label co-founder Matt Kahane, who scouted and signed The Anonymous, went on to become multiple Grammy-winning producer Jack Splash (Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé).[54]

Beginning in 2006, all prior recordings were made available digitally under The Anonymous name through Survivor Soul Music — clarifying a source of longstanding fan confusion caused by the group's three successive name changes.[33] In March 2026, Swells of Abstract was re-issued on limited-edition double vinyl on Survivor Soul Music / Gramofix Records, a German hip-hop label.[55] Weep No More is scheduled for a forthcoming 30th Anniversary limited-edition double vinyl reissue on the same imprint.

Later career (2000–present)

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Following a move back to New York City in 2001, Guglielmo adopted the alias Manifest and produced, co-wrote, and composed "Forever and a Day" for Mystic's Grammy-nominated debut Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom (GoodVibe / Interscope, 2001), an album that also includes production by Shock G, Chops, AmpLive, and A-Plus. The track originated when Kahane, who had signed Mystic, passed her an instrumental of Guglielmo's, which she selected and would become "Forever and a Day," recorded and mixed by Matt Lavella at Sound Image in Van Nuys, California. The record was re-released digitally by Universal Music Group in August 2011 to mark its 10th anniversary. The Source singled out the track as "the jewel of the collection" with "spine-tingling piano keys and thunderous drums."[56]

Other production credits include "Ignite" and "Nice With It" on Northern State's All City (Columbia/Sony, 2004) — contributing two tracks alongside beats by Pete Rock, DJ Muggs, and Questlove of The Roots — and film scoring for Novocaine (Artisan Entertainment, 2001), MacArthur Park (Sundance Entertainment, 2001), No Strings Attached (Paramount Pictures, 2011), and 5 Sides of a Coin (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003), the last of which was reviewed in the New York Times, crediting "original music by Manifest."[57]

Since 2005, Guglielmo has placed music in television shows across multiple networks and countries, including Pimp My Ride, America's Next Top Model, Jersey Shore, Mob Wives, Entertainment Tonight, The Real World, Bad Girls Club, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Inside the Actors Studio, as well as NBC broadcasts of the 2006 Summer Olympics, the 2007 Wimbledon Preview Show, and ESPN and NBC coverage of the U.S. Open.[58]

In 2011, he returned to his Vesuveo alias with the release of his solo debut Shine (Survivor Soul Music). Issued on his own independent imprint, it was also mixed by Matt Lavella and mastered by Tatsuya Sato at Sterling Sound, New York.[59] Guglielmo executive produced the album and produced three tracks, including the lead single "Algiers Point," featuring Evelyn Harris of the Grammy-winning a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. Zinndeadly produced two tracks, including "Help" and "Spark Nasty" featuring scratches by DJ Drez.

Guglielmo's music career has been documented in Italian cultural media; Simona Frasca profiled him in Il Manifesto in 2013 and included him in Italian Birds of Passage: The Diaspora of Neapolitan Musicians in New York (St. Martin's Press, 2014).[60]

Grants, residencies, and public programs

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Guglielmo has received grants from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts ValleyCreates / MASS MoCA Assets for Artists program (2021, 2022, 2023),[61][62] the Puffin Foundation (2024),[63] and Art Fluent (2025).[22] Residencies include The Williston Northampton School (2018),[64] and the 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, South Carolina (January–March 2027).[65]

In 2024, following three years as a grantee, Guglielmo was appointed a paid Community Advisor for the ValleyCreates program at the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts — which has distributed over $3.6 million in grants to arts organizations and individual artists since its founding[66] — presented in partnership with Assets for Artists.[67] Working with foundation staff and fellow advisors, he co-designs the program and reviews grant applications for individual artists and arts organizations.

From 2014 to 2020, Guglielmo performed as a rapper and cultural collaborator in the PrisonVision Program, which he co-created with the Young@Heart Chorus, performing at correctional facilities and public venues in Western Massachusetts while facilitating collaborative music rehearsals between the incarcerated and the elderly.[68] Two recordings from the program appeared on Young@Heart's 2020 live album Miss You. The initiative received significant funding from various foundations and attracted coverage from CNN Champions for Change and HuffPost Japan, among others.[69] The program was revived in spring 2025.

Discography

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As The Anonymous

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Year Title Label Notes
1995 Swells of Abstract Self-released Cassette; as Vertigo
1996 Weep No More Nightglow Music / Arcane Records CD; as Moonshine
1998 Green and Gold Nightglow Music / GoodVibe Recordings Vinyl EP then CD LP; feat. Eminem; #9 U.S. Rap Radio
1999 Dedicated Nightglow Music / GoodVibe Recordings Vinyl EP
2026 Swells of Abstract (reissue) Survivor Soul Music / Gramofix Records Deluxe limited-edition double vinyl, 2LP
2026 Weep No More (reissue) Survivor Soul Music / Gramofix Records Forthcoming 30th Anniversary limited-edition double vinyl, 2LP

As Vesuveo

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Year Title Label Notes
2000 Survivor Soul Instrumentals Vol. 1 Survivor Soul Music
2000 Survivor Soul Instrumentals Vol. 2 Survivor Soul Music
2011 Shine Survivor Soul Music Solo debut
2011 "Algiers Point" feat. Evelyn Harris Survivor Soul Music Single; music video released
2011 "Spark Nasty" feat. DJ Drez Survivor Soul Music Second single off Shine; music video released
2011 "I Just Wanna Hold U" Survivor Soul Music Third single off Shine; music video released
2024 Survivor Soul Instrumentals Vol. 3 Survivor Soul Music

Selected singles

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Year Artist Title Label
1996 Moonshine feat. Cut Chemist "The Sad Sombrero Song" b/w "Backstreet Gods" Nightglow Music / Arcane Records
1996 Moonshine feat. DJ Mark Luv "Origin of Species" b/w "Duck Season" Nightglow Music / Arcane Records
1998 The Anonymous feat. DJ Drez, Rakaa, Divine Styler, Living Legends et al. "Dr. EZ's Cool Fantastic Parts I & II" Nightglow Music / GoodVibe Recordings
1998 The Anonymous feat. Eminem "Green and Gold" Nightglow Music / GoodVibe Recordings

Selected production credits

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Year Artist Title Label Role
2001 Mystic "Forever and a Day," Cuts for Luck and Scars for Freedom GoodVibe / Interscope Producer, co-writer, composer
2001 Zaire Black & June22 feat. Vesuveo & Able "Initiation," Experiments with Truth Emmoworks Rapper, writer
2001 Turi feat. Manifest "S.O.S.," Salviamo il Salvabile Antibe Music Rapper, writer
2002 Esa feat. Manifest "Caliente," Tutti Gli Uomini d'el Presidente Vibra Records Rapper, writer, producer
2004 Northern State "Ignite," "Nice With It," All City Columbia / Sony Writer, producer (with Pete Rock, DJ Muggs, Questlove)
2012 Young@Heart Chorus Now Self-released Executive producer

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