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About Saigon:

There are three artists with this designation:

1) An African-American Rapper
2) A Post-Punk band from Leamington Spa
3) A Swedish heavy metal ribbon

1) Saigon (born Brian Carenard, 1978) is an African-American rapper.

Born in Newburgh, New York, He drained his rearing moving between instantaneous and extended family members in Spring Valley, New York and Brooklyn as satisfactorily as parts of New Jersey and Virginia. He cites his dam's inattention toward him due to the new coming of numerous younger siblings as being the catalyst representing his approximately 15-year insubordinate interval. At lifetime 11 he began selling marijuana and at duration 13 he had joined in a neighborhood assembly. By the period Saigon reached 15 he had already been implicated in at least two shootings championing which he received gaol interval. This would be his dwelling-location for the bulk of the next some years of his existence as he was "raised" in the New York Penal System. While incarcerated, he took the position label Saigon from the potent Vietnam War amount “Bloods” close Wallace Terry, which he peruse while he was serving stretch in jail.

He is currently signed to Just Blaze's Fort Knox Entertainment pen identification and is working on his larger identifier debut entitled The Greatest Story Never Told for a November 2006 let go, which has at current been postponed to a later unannounced spell.

He appeared on the succeeding patch of the HBO TV series Entourage and this is credited as being a big lift to his job to the dot where the mainstream U.S. people is start to identify him as opposed to merely his before little following. He also appears in the third period.

He also performed disjoin tracks with both Australian bright leap MC Phrase and singer Daniel Merriweather in 2005.

MTV News reported that on January 19th 2006, Saigon was stabbed in the place with a beer flask as he sinistral-hand a dinner in the Chelsea part of New York. A gentleman approached Saigon and attempted to grip a line of his, quality $18,000. When Saigon grabbed it risk in, a contend started. Saigon, bleeding from the skull, tried to greet down a cab-cub (not deficient to get blood in his Mercedes Benz) but was not able to and drove himself to Bellevue Hospital where he received seventy stitches.

2) Saigon is also the appellation of an beforehand 80's 3 bit Post-Punk sash from Leamington Spa. Their music was released because of First Floor Records.


3) Also the name of a Swedish ponderous metal bandeau