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Rapper and Staten Island native
Solomon Childs (born Walbert Ryan Dale in 1975) became affiliated with the mighty
Wu-Tang Clan through his family ties to godbrother
Cappadonna and cousin
Ghostface Killah. Dale contributed to various
Wu-Tang-related releases throughout the late '90s and early 2000s, including verses on
Cappadonna's
The Pillage,
RZA's
Bobby Digital,
Ghostface Killah's
Supreme Clientele, and others. In the early 2000s he was a member of the
Ghostface-affiliated group
Theodore Unit, as well as appearing on tracks by other artists and working on his own releases.
Solomon Childs issued a steady string of CD-R albums throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, offering the same kind of frenetic styles and hyper-prolific creative drive that would be represented by mixtape releases in hip-hop's next generation. In 2016 he was shot twice in a drive-by shooting while out shopping in Staten Island. The rapper underwent multiple surgeries but survived the attempt on his life. He returned in 2017 after the ordeal with Don't Ask Permission, Ask for Forgiveness. ~ Fred Thomas