PLAGA’S BIO:

Brooklyn, New York born and raised Hip-Hop emcee PLAGA (real name Wahiyd Seku Gray) began honing his lyrical skills as a youngster in the early 90’s for the love of the Hip-Hop culture’s music, just to expressing himself, and have people actually feeling the rhymes that he recited.

At a very young age PLAGA and his mother migrated from Brooklyn back to her own place of birth of New Orleans, LA, where he lived for a few years in the heart of the seventh ward amongst the hardship surrounding the neighborhood, and the rich culture of the city of his family’s origin. After spending a few years in the NOLA, his mother moved them back to his birth place of Brooklyn, NY. Over the years while growing up in his grandmother’s house hold with his uncle who was a Hip-Hop DJ at the time; PLAGA was exposed to East, West, and Southern Hip-Hop music. His love for the music, respect for the craft of rhyming, and being entrenched in Hip-Hop culture made him want to develop and showcase his own rhyming skills for the sport, and he did so in street corner cyphers with his back then crew. At the age of 15 he formed a group with one of his close friend, named the Sharp Shooters, and went by the name of Trouble, a name he was dubbed in the streets of Flatbush.

While in the group he began to develop his song writing and arranging skills. After sometime his uncle began noticing him and his partner’s raw talent, and started bringing them into the studio to develop their recording skills. Affording him the opportunity to be mentored by his uncle and various emcees he crossed paths with in the studio sessions, PLAGA began exceling at his craft very quickly, and his older piers started to take notice, so much so he was offered opportunities to be on various projects, and perform as part of an opening act for 90’s Hip-Hop acts like Smoothe Tha Hustler and Trigga The Gambler to name a few.

After years of honing his craft, and gaining underground recognition, he encountered a setback while hanging in the streets of New York City, and doing what he felt he had to do to survive. After serial encounters with the law, PLAGA had to do four years of jail time. He used that time to reflect on his direction in life, read various life changing books, and steadily improve at his musical craft of writing and reciting rhymes.

After his release from jail he decided to make big adjustments in his personal way of life and thinking, and dug deep into building his career as an Hip-Hop artist and entrepreneur. He changed his emcee name to “PLAGA”, the Spanish word for plague; it’s used by him to reference a double word play, implying an infestation of his music invading and taking over the entertainment industry, as well as being an acronym standing for “Prestigious Lyrical Assassin Governing All”.

With the release of his debut mixtape, the first installment of a mixtape series titled Lyrical Fitness, and the development of his emerging record label F.A.C. Ent (a.k.a. Family Always Concurs Ent), and penning songs for other artists in the game. PLAGA and his team are gearing up to be a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment and business industries.