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Siba Giba (or SBG) is a French-American
record producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
, rapper, composer, curator, journalist and hip hop historian who lives in Brooklyn. He is a member of the hip hop group Get Open. He is the founder of Overtime Records and is also the co-founder and artistic director of the Hip Hop Loves Foundation. As a producer, he has worked with
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),
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),
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and
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. In 1999, he produced and co-wrote the song "Painkillers" by
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for the album ''
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''. The record was certified triple
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, selling more than 3,000,000 copies, and was nominated for two
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s. In 2017/2018 Giba curated an exhibition entitled, "Hip-Hop : Un Age d'Or", a hip hop culture collective that featured photographs and artifacts from the period known as
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(mid/late 1980s until the mid-1990s). The show ran at the Musée d'Art Contemporain (Museum Of Contemporary Art) in
Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
, France, from May 13, 2017, until January 14, 2018.
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