Gary G-Wiz

Gary Rinaldo (born May 3, 1969), better known by the name Gary G-Wiz, is an American record producer and film score composer. Most known for being a member of the hip hop production team the Bomb Squad, G-Wiz is a longtime Public Enemy producer and contributed to many albums including: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black, Greatest Misses, Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, Autobiography of Mistachuck, There's a Poison Goin' On, Revolverlution, and How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?.^[1]

Biography

G-Wiz, like many East Coast hip hop producers, began as a DJ spinning at basement parties and small clubs in Long Island, Queens and New York City in the mid-1980s.

He made the transition to record producer in the early 1990s, when he handed fellow Long Islander Chuck D a tape full of beats. The hip hop production team, The Bomb Squad, had silently gone their separate ways after Fear of a Black Planet (1990) and no new Public Enemy album was imminent. After hearing G-Wiz's music, Chuck D immediately planned to do an EP with G-Wiz being the sole producer. The two had such chemistry, the original eight cuts soon turned into 12 and Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black was born.^[2] Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black, as of 2007, is Public Enemy's greatest selling album to date, selling close to two million copies,^{[citation needed]} and spawning the hits "Can't Truss It"^[2] and "Shut Em Down."

G-Wiz went on to produce for artists such as Janet Jackson, Aerosmith, U2, Busta Rhymes, Rakim, Run–D.M.C., Method Man, Redman, Ludacris, Twista, KRS-One, Bell Biv Devoe, Peter Gabriel, Lisa Stansfield, Aaron Hall, Big Daddy Kane, Anthrax and Sinéad O'Connor.^[2]

In 1992, G-Wiz was introduced to the world of film, where he composed the score for the Paramount Pictures film, Juice,^[2] starring Tupac Shakur, as well as producing on the film's certified platinum soundtrack.^[3] Since then, G-Wiz has contributed songs and score to Spike Lee's He Got Game, Bulworth with Warren Beatty, Paramount Pictures Mad City, Fox Television's King of the Hill, and a collaboration with Chuck D to create the main title theme to Fox's Dark Angel starring Jessica Alba. G-Wiz produced "Harder Than You Think", which climbed to No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart,^[4] becoming the highest charting Public Enemy UK single to date.

Discography

Public Enemy

• Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991)
• Greatest Misses (1992)
• Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age (1994)
• He Got Game (1998)
• There's a Poison Goin' On (1999)
• Revolverlution (2002)
• How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? (2007)
• Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp (2012)
• The Evil Empire of Everything (2012)
• Man Plans God Laughs (2015)

Run–D.M.C.

• Down with the King (1993)

Chuck D (solo)

• Autobiography of Mistachuck (1996)

Hyenas in the Desert

• Die Laughing (1996)

Aaron Hall

• The Truth (1993)

Film and television

• Juice (1992)
• Digging to China (1997)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Dark Angel (2001)
• Volcano High (2001)
• X Games (2003)
• ESPY Awards (2003)
• Method & Red (2004)
• The Longest Yard (2005)
• American Gangster (2007)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• Lakeview Terrace (2008)

References

External links

• Myspace
• Public Enemy Official Site
• Hip Hop Gods