Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.

Four pounds of apples, cored and cut up, but not peeled, or green gooseberries, or green peaches and apples, mixed, one wine bottleful of vinegar, one pound of coarse sugar.

a river of blood

And overcome us like a summer's cloud.