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Defining Ill Bill, a rapper from Brooklyn’s Glenwood Projects, is next to impossible. Ill Bill cut his musical teeth on early collaborations playing bass with Necro and cofounding the death metal band Injustice. Now a heavyweight on the hip-hop scene, Ill Bill is also the producer, founder and CEO of the thriving label Uncle Howie Records.

As founding member of the now defunct seminal rap group Non Phixion crew, he issued 2002’s acclaimed LP The Future is Now and confirmed his master craftsman status. As a solo artist, his live shows are notorious for their honest and tight delivery, revealing his complex nature and twisted psyche. His first album What’s Wrong With Bill? (2004) and critically acclaimed mix tape series Ill Bill is the Future (2006), Black Metal (2007) and Street Villians (2003) with Necro, are heralded as classics of the genre.