| Pegz | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Tirren Staaf |
| Alias: | Pegz MC Pegasus |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1975 |
| Origin: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Occupation: | Rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Years Active: | 1992 - present |
| Label: | Obese |
| Associated Acts: | Milk Bar Stars, Gully Platoon |
Tirren Staaf, otherwise known as Pegz (or MC Pegasus), is an Australian hip hop artist and producer hailing from Melbourne, Victoria. He was the CEO of Obese Records[1] —the record label responsible for artists such as Hilltop Hoods, Downsyde, and Bias B.[2]
Tirren Staaf has said that he was named after Tiran Porter, former member of the Doobie Brothers.[3] [4]
Pegz has been a part of the Australian hip hop scene since 1992, and has released four full-length studio albums. As a teenager he was first a graffiti artist before becoming a rapper.
In 2000, he got a job at Obese Records, a specialist hip-hop music store in Prahran.[5]
He released his first recording, an EP, Pegasus, on the Obese label in 2001, followed by a studio album, Capricorn Cat in 2003 and Axis in 2005.
In 2005, Pegz toured nationally with Australian Hip Hop Milk Bar Stars (Pegz, Muph, DJ Bonez and Plutonic Lab).[6]
Upon releasing his third solo album, Burn City, in 2007, Pegz nominally retired as a solo artist to concentrate on managing Obese Records.[7]
'This will be my last solo effort I think; I'm not in the mental space to be juggling everything right now, but we'll see what happens. I'm always writing. Always.'[8]
In 2009 Pegz, as part of Gully Platoon, together with Dialectrix (a.k.a. Ryan Leaf) and Joe New (Down Under Beats crew), released an album The Great Divide.[9] The album reached #5 on the AIR Top 20 Album charts[10] and #18 on the ARIA Top 40 Urban Album charts.[11] The group released their first video clip for the single "Nothing To Lose" on 15 September 2009.[12]
On 26 January 2011, Obese Records revealed that Pegz would be releasing another solo album entitled Drama. It was released in April 2011.
| Details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [13] | |||
| Capricorn Cat |
| — | |
| Axis |
| — | |
| Burn City |
| 70 | |
| Drama |
| 52 |