More than a decade ago, Edreys Wajed was a hip-hop artist working under the nom de plume Billy Drease Williams. At that time, I was struck by the willfully interdisciplinary approach he took to hip-hop and art in general. `Hip-hop is art, when it`s at its best,” Wajed told me in 2009. “And it is also a significant part of the culture – here in Buffalo, of course, and in the whole country, as well.` That work – much of it made in collaboration with the help of Tony Caferro, a producer, promoter, DJ and head of local indie label Deep Thinka Records – was only the tip of the artistic iceberg. In addition to his work as a musician, Wajed also is a painter, poet, jewelry designer, entrepreneur...
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