Big JC

Foday Musa Mansaray, popularly known as Big JC – named Big in eastern Freetown because of his stature, and JC meaning “just come” due to his arrival from the US – is a Gullah/Geechee (African American) artist from Pennsylvania, US, who moved to Sierra Leone in 2013.

He performs a genre of music called Revolutionary but Gangsta (RBG), which was made popular by the hip hop group Dead Prez. His career as a hip hop artist started at childhood in the early 1990s. In 2000, he became a studio recording artist for an indie label Thug World Entertainment. He was featured under the name Grim on three songs from the Thug World Mixtape compilation in 2001.

Personal tragedy in 2003 led to his departure from hip hop, until his return in 2013 in a song titled No Money by two Allentown youth in Freetown.

As CEO of Boku Life Family, he’s working with a host of prolific Sierra Leonean artist to produce and promote a new generation of African Hip Hop.