Mr. Dead

Mr. Dead is an underground hip-hop artist hailing from Brooklyn, New York. Born as C. Davis, the passionate horror movie fan worked as an accomplished makeup artist not only on grade-B horror films, but also on music videos, including some by rap act Gravediggaz. While doing makeup at a Prince Paul video shoot, he was introduced to WordSound, New York's underground hip-hop and illbient label. Dead teamed up with Big Pat to form the duo Metabolics, who released their first album, The M-Virus, on WordSound in 1999. In 2001, he released his first full-fledged solo effort, a conti...