Black Pegasus (rapper)
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Robert Houston II, also known as Black Pegasus or simply Black-P, is an American rapper
/southwestern hip hop
artist from Colorado Springs
. He is the current president and CEO of Brass Knuckle Entertainment.
where his father was stationed with the US Air Force, and lived in Arizona, Florida and New Mexico before his family settled on the Southeast side of Colorado Springs
when he was age ten. He is from the Woodside Townhomes section in Colorado Springs. He is of mixed African-American and Mexican descent, hence the title of his fourth album, The Black Mexican. He open enrolled for high school and attended Widefield and Mitchell High School, and began rapping when he was sixteen, soon performing and working in his early days under the name Yo Mamma's Pimp. He worked with the group Fusion of Syllables (F.O.S.) for two years before going solo in 2001. Black-P has released five studio albums (Black Pegasus, Knuckle Up, F**K YO RADIO, The Black Mexican, and Black By Popular Demand), two mixtapes (Black P The Mixtape, and Shitting On the Industry Vol.1), and one collaboration CD (Banana Spitz) with Liquid Assassin of the hip hop group Grave Plott
. His new album Brass Knuckle King is slated for a 2011 release, and will feature guest appearances by Immortal Technique
, Liquid Assassin, and more. Black P is also currently working on a second collaboration album, The Red Monkeyz, with Liquid Assassin.
Black-P has taken part in several battle-rapping contests, winning the Rock the Mic Battle in 2003 and taking second place in Scribble Jam in Cincinnati. He has featured on the MTV
shows Road Rules
and The Real World
and in the NBA Jam 2 video game.
. He has gained much notoriety throughout the Midwest
and Southwestern United States
.
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...
/southwestern hip hop
Southwest Hip Hop
Southwest hip hop is a form of hip hop music performed in the Southwestern United States. It is very different from East Coast and Southern hip hop; it shares more similarities with Midwest and West Coast hip hop...
artist from Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...
. He is the current president and CEO of Brass Knuckle Entertainment.
Biography
Robert Houston II was born on March 24, 1980 in GermanyGermany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
where his father was stationed with the US Air Force, and lived in Arizona, Florida and New Mexico before his family settled on the Southeast side of Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...
when he was age ten. He is from the Woodside Townhomes section in Colorado Springs. He is of mixed African-American and Mexican descent, hence the title of his fourth album, The Black Mexican. He open enrolled for high school and attended Widefield and Mitchell High School, and began rapping when he was sixteen, soon performing and working in his early days under the name Yo Mamma's Pimp. He worked with the group Fusion of Syllables (F.O.S.) for two years before going solo in 2001. Black-P has released five studio albums (Black Pegasus, Knuckle Up, F**K YO RADIO, The Black Mexican, and Black By Popular Demand), two mixtapes (Black P The Mixtape, and Shitting On the Industry Vol.1), and one collaboration CD (Banana Spitz) with Liquid Assassin of the hip hop group Grave Plott
Grave Plott
Grave Plott is a hardcore/horrorcore rap group consisting of Killa C and Liquid Assassin . Their first full length album, The Plott Thickens, was released on May 20, 2008, through a Distribution deal with Strange Music and Dirty Thug Records...
. His new album Brass Knuckle King is slated for a 2011 release, and will feature guest appearances by Immortal Technique
Immortal Technique
Felipe Andres Coronel , better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is an American rapper of Afro-Peruvian descent as well as an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics...
, Liquid Assassin, and more. Black P is also currently working on a second collaboration album, The Red Monkeyz, with Liquid Assassin.
Black-P has taken part in several battle-rapping contests, winning the Rock the Mic Battle in 2003 and taking second place in Scribble Jam in Cincinnati. He has featured on the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
shows Road Rules
Road Rules
Road Rules was an MTV reality show that debuted on July 19, 1995. The series, which was MTV's second reality show after The Real World followed six strangers between the ages of 18 and 24 after stripping them of their money and putting them on an RV traveling from location to location only guided...
and The Real World
The Real World
The Real World is a reality television program on MTV originally produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the...
and in the NBA Jam 2 video game.
Fan Base
Black Pegasus also has a very large following in DenverDenver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
. He has gained much notoriety throughout the Midwest
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States is one of the four U.S. geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau, providing an official definition of the American Midwest....
and Southwestern United States
Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...
.
Achievements
- Guest Appears on songs with Tech N9neTech N9neAaron Dontez Yates , better known by his stage name Tech N9ne , is an American rapper from Kansas City, Missouri. In 1999, Yates and Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. Throughout his career, Yates has sold over one million albums and has had his music featured in film,...
and Liquid Assassin - Performed at Red Rocks in front of 6,000 people in May 2009
- Mile High Mixtape review in Scratch Mag in August 2007
- Cover story of the Gazette in August 2007
- Featured in Billboard Magazine in June 2006
- Advertised in URB Magazine 2005-2007
- Denvers Best MC voted by the Westword 2005-2006
- Colorado Springs best MC by the Gazette 2006
- Scribble Jam finalist 2003
- Denver's Jay-Z Roc the Mic Champion 2003
- Featured on NBA Jams 2 for Play Station and Xbox 2002
- SXSW Show case artist 2001-2002
- Featured on MTV's Road Rules and The Real World 2002-2008
Studio Albums
- Black Pegasus (2003)
- Knuckle Up (2005)
- F**K YO RADIO (2006)
- The Black Mexican (2008)
- Black By Popular Demand (2010)
- Brass Knuckle King (2011)
Collaborations
- Black Pegasus Presents: Banana Spitz (2009)
- The Council (TBA 2011)
- The Brass Knuckle Gang (TBA)
Music Videos
| Title | Album |
|---|---|
| "I Got Next" | Knuckle Up |
| "Yeah Baby" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | |
| "Who Ya Gonna Call?" | |
| "Bow Your Head" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | |
| "Keep On Movin'" | |
| "So Glad" | F**K YO RADIO! |
| "Keep It Up, Don't Stop" | The Black Mexican |
| "Rep That" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | |
| "Step Into the Ring" | |
| "Drop It 4 Me" | Shitting On the Industry Vol.1 |
| "Over & Over" | Black By Popular Demand |
| "Heaven Kiss" | |
| "Time Lost" | |
| "Problem Goin' Back" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | Brass Knuckle King |
| "To the Top" | |
| "Brass Knuckle King" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | |
| "Snicker Licker" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | |
| "Spank That" - Director Angel Andres Rosado | |
| "We Gone Make It" | |
| "Notorious B.P." | |
| "So Colorado" | The Council |