ArtistInfo

Joe Buhdha

Hip-Hop/Rap
A.k.a. Richard Douglas Richard Douglas (3)

Joe Buhdha was born and bred in Nottingham, and was first introduced to hip-hop by his sister. She was into the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Sugar Hill Gang and early electro, and to add to that, his brother in law was part of a breakin crew called The Assassinaters, with which he used to go on tour with around the UK. From then on he had caught the bug and along with some of his school mates, started doing their own tunes. Around a year later they did a demo with DJ Trade and local producer, Chisel, and were promtly signed to Submission Records in Derby. On the back of this they were offered a deal to do a single and an EP, and they had only just left school! They had a couple of singles out and started touring the UK. This culminated in a performance at the 1989 DMC Championships. The same year a scout from Run DMCs Profile Records heard one of their tracks and promptly offered their label a five figure sum for a US album, which their label turned down for reasons best known to themselves. Joe went on to set up a studio at the Acna centre in Nottingham with help from the local council,producing acts such as Mr 45 and Fury. More recently Joe has worked on remixes for East Flatbush Project, Luciano and London Posse, and is currently producing tracks with Supernatural, Charli 2na, Rodney P, Iri Science and Babu, DJ Noize, DJ Crossfader and L Fudge.

Genres

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• Dance
• Electronic
• R&B/Soul