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Saigon
12+ albums
Hip-Hoprapeast coast raphip hopGangsta Rap
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There are at least six artists with this name: 1) An American Rapper 2) A Post-Punk band from Leamington Spa. Alternative page: Saigon 3) A Swedish heavy metal band 4) A punk band from Orange County, California 5) A Finnish poprock group from the 80s 6) A Swedish group formed in Berlin in 2010 but, at the time of writing, based in Stockholm. 1) Saigon (born Brian Carenard, 1978) is an African-American rapper. Born in Newburgh, New York, He spent his upbringing moving between immediate and extended family members in Spring Valley, New York and Brooklyn as well as parts of New Jersey and Virginia. He cites his mother's inattention towards him due to the new arrival of numerous younger siblings as being the catalyst for his roughly 15-year rebellious period. At age 11 he began selling marijuana and at age 13 he had joined in a neighborhood gang. By the time Saigon reached 15 he had already been involved in at least two shootings for which he received jail time. This would be his home for the majority of the next several years of his life as he was "raised" in the New York Penal System. While incarcerated, he took the stage name Saigon from the influential Vietnam War book “Bloods” by Wallace Terry, which he read while he was serving time in prison. He is currently signed to Just Blaze's Fort Knox Entertainment record label and is working on his major label debut entitled The Greatest Story Never Told for a November 2006 release, which has now been postponed to a later unanno
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albums
Warning Shots
The Greatest Story Never Told
Belly Of The Beast: The Scram Jones Files
The Moral Of The Story
All In A Day's Work
The Bonus Story
Undisputed
The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses
Warning Shots 2
The Greatest Story Never Told (Deluxe Edition)
50 Cent VS Saigon
GSNT 3: The troubled times of Brian Carenard