Sol Guy

Canadian producer, manager, film producer, and former head of Figure IV Entertainment from Grand Forks, British Columbia, he later moved to Vancouver where he started his career as a manager for Canadian hip-hop outfit Rascalz. He then went on to work for Arista Records in New York City as director of International Artist Development. Over the years, he has worked with many hip-hop luminaries such as Lauryn Hill, P Diddy, India Arie, K-Os, Rascalz, The Roots, Outkast, Kardinal Offishall, Dead Prez, The Notorious B.I.G. and The Wu-Tang Clan. In 2007 he launched 4REAL.com to bring together activism and entertainment, after which he started working with Somalian-born hip-hop MC K'Naan as his manager. He has produced films such as 4Real (2007), A Tribe Called Red: The Virus - feat. Saul Williams & Chippewa Travellers (2016) and Tough Bond (2013). His father William Richard Guy was an Afro-American from Kansas City, Missouri, the United States of America who had emigrated to Canada after his military service in Vietnam. Sol credits his father for instilling a sense of social responsibility in him during his upbringing. Brother of Jayda G.