Siba Giba Explained

Siba Giba
Alias:	Siba-Giba, SBG, Sebastian Bardin-Greenberg
Birth Place:	Paris, France^[1]
Instrument:	Drums
Occupation:	Record producer, rapper, composer

Siba Giba (or SBG) is a French-American record producer, rapper, composer, curator, journalist and hip hop historian who lives in Brooklyn.^[2] He is a member of the hip hop group Get Open.^[3] He is the founder of Overtime Records and is also the co-founder and artistic director of the Hip Hop Loves Foundation.^{[2] [4]}

As a producer, he has worked with Daddy-O (Stetsasonic), Sadat X (Brand Nubian), Vinia Mojica and Freestyle Fellowship.^[2] In 1999, he produced and co-wrote the song "Painkillers" by Everlast for the album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. The record was certified triple platinum, selling more than 3,000,000 copies, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.^[5]

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 Golden age hip hop (mid/late 1980s until the mid-1990s). The show ran at the Musée d'Art Contemporain (Museum Of Contemporary Art) in Marseille, France, from May 13, 2017, until January 14, 2018.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nasty 2008. The Kool Skool (blog). May 28, 2019.
2. Web site: Today’s Producer Spotlight Shine’s On: Siba Giba. Instrumology. March 9, 2014. May 28, 2019.
3. Web site: Get Open - The Week-End. Discogs. May 28, 2019.
4. Web site: overtime records inc. over-2013. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: RIO DE JANIERO (sic) | Hip Hop Loves. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: Siba Giba. IMDb. May 28, 2019.
5. Web site: Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings The Blues. Discogs. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: Where The Heck Has Everlast Been?. MTV News. May 28, 2019. May 31, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190531140254/http://www.mtv.com/news/1458970/where-the-heck-has-everlast-been/. dead.
   - Web site: Painkillers-Everlast. May 28, 2019. Soundcloud.
   - Web site: Release "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues" by Everlast. MusicBrainz. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: Who Sang "Painkillers"? Everlast. Lyrics007. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: Everlast. February 15, 2019. GRAMMY. May 28, 2019.
6. Web site: Hip-Hop Un Age d'Or-Exhibit, 69 avenue d'haifa, Marseille (2019). Gluseum. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: Western Connecticut State University Events. Western Connecticut State University. May 28, 2019.
   - Web site: HANGTIME SAISON 9 EPISODE 34 : HIPHOP EXPO. Radio Grenouille. May 28, 2019. fr.
   - Web site: Exposition Hip Hop un âge d'or au MAC Marseille. Marseille Chauffeur Service. June 18, 2017. May 28, 2019. fr. May 5, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505000737/https://marseille-chauffeur-service.com/fr/exposition-hip-hop-un-age-dor-au-mac-marseille/. dead.
   - Web site: HIP HOP : UN ÂGE D’OR | Marseille expos. May 28, 2019. fr. June 20, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190620101031/http://www.marseilleexpos.com/blog/2017/06/14/hip-hop-un-age-dor/. dead.
   - Web site: VP Agent . Valérie Paumelle . May 28, 2019 . May 5, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190505000738/http://www.valeriepaumelle-agent.com/vpnews/category/%23photographicseries . dead .