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Born Antonio Basalo, Budda (BUDDARUDDA) AKA "The Sinister Saint", is a young 30 year old Filipino rap artist hailing from Fort worth, TX. At 5 his mother tutored him on piano introducing him to classical and light rock music. At 9 his stepfather introduced him to country music, It wasn't until years later that Budda really got involved with music and joined band but it was also where he slowly developed his rhythm to rhyme, often write rap poems to express his mind.
After graduating high school in 2009, Budda decided to "give it a shot" and with long time brother, Geno (Luccianno), wrote and performed Christian raps for a year. Both artist were later picked up by D- Loc (Junk) of Geeta Boy Records, after 2 years with Geeta Boys Budda went solo for another year before teaming up with friend to finish making his first Independent mix tape "Welcome To The Row" (1/7/2013)
At 22, Budda signed to Deathstalker Records owned by Mike Cummings of 2nd Step Management. Budda began regular live performances and had 50+ shows in 2013 in multiple Texas cities.
With 2nd Step, Budda has released his first studio quality song titled "Say Girl" with executive producer Mike Cummings (JCee, Hailey Erin) and Multi-Platinum Grammy award winning producer Ty Macklin (Erykah Badu, India Arie).
He later left the label a couple of years later to go solo and released his first solo album "Working Class" 4/20/2016. Budda is currently working on his latest project "Locoz Only", set to release 2019.
After graduating high school in 2009, Budda decided to "give it a shot" and with long time brother, Geno (Luccianno), wrote and performed Christian raps for a year. Both artist were later picked up by D- Loc (Junk) of Geeta Boy Records, after 2 years with Geeta Boys Budda went solo for another year before teaming up with friend to finish making his first Independent mix tape "Welcome To The Row" (1/7/2013)
At 22, Budda signed to Deathstalker Records owned by Mike Cummings of 2nd Step Management. Budda began regular live performances and had 50+ shows in 2013 in multiple Texas cities.
With 2nd Step, Budda has released his first studio quality song titled "Say Girl" with executive producer Mike Cummings (JCee, Hailey Erin) and Multi-Platinum Grammy award winning producer Ty Macklin (Erykah Badu, India Arie).
He later left the label a couple of years later to go solo and released his first solo album "Working Class" 4/20/2016. Budda is currently working on his latest project "Locoz Only", set to release 2019.
