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Goldie is a legend in Hiphop and Jungle who started out as a bboy and graffiti writer before creating his drum and bass label Metalheadz. Born in Walsall, England, but raised in Wolverhampton, Goldie is of Jamaican and Scottish heritage. Goldie was a member of the breakdance crew Westside, based in the Whitmore Reans and Heath Town areas of Wolverhampton, in the 1980s. He later joined a breakdance crew called the Birmingham Bboys, and made his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands. His artwork around Birmingham and Wolverhampton was featured heavily in Dick Fontaine’s documentary Bombin’. He is mentioned for his graffiti in the book Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, which contains several examples of his art. He moved to the United States owing to graffiti projects, and also started selling grills (gold teeth jewellery) in New York and Miami; he continued this business after his return to the UK in 1988. His nickname stems from “Goldielocks”, an earlier nickname given to him during his Bboys days and subsequently shortened when he no longer wore dreadlocks.