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Artist
Curly Castro
12+ albums
USAHip-Hopeast coast hip-hopunderground hip-hopSXSW 2013
about
Curly Castro was born in Brooklyn, New York in the late seventies. As a child he was surrounded by the grit and diversity of his neighborhood and finds himself still inspired by all that his upbringing in Flatbush had to offer. He found himself heavily influenced by the visually striking graffiti laced trains, the fluid uninhibited movement of break dance, the political and social tensions of his community and the dizzyingly distracting boom-bap beats serving as the soundtrack. All these elements served as the backdrop for a young man who would soon become an incredible force in the hip-hop world. He left Brooklyn to go to college in Philadelphia. During that time, he joined a hip-hop group Nemesis, befriended them and began to serve as a tool almost every hip-hop act needs for an even better live show – a “hype man”. He was know as an electric almost scene stealing personality and with each passing show, he developed an affinity for free-styling, writing rhymes and poetry. He soon became an emcee throwing around several stage names until he became comfortable with a somewhat permanent alias “Obsidian.” As Obsidian he joined forced with two other emcees and formed the group Natural Burners. After a couple of years, Nat Burn began to collaborate with another group who was very established in the city at the time, Ghetto Hero Superman Save-A-Poets. The two posses found themselves sharing the stage at several venues on the same nights and even competing against each other in s
