Belly (rapper)

Ahmad Balshe (Arabic: ???? ?????) (born 7 April 1984), better known by his stage name Belly, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer of Palestinian descent. He is managed by SAL&CO.[1][2] Born in Jenin in the Palestinian West Bank, and raised in Ottawa,[3] Balshe embarked on a career as a musician at 16 playing drums in various Ottawa punk bands. At twenty-one years old he moved on to his main love hip-hop with the release of his debut mixtape, Death Before Dishonor: Vol. 1. He then released eight additional projects in a span of six years, including his debut studio album The Revolution (2007), as well as two collaborative mixtapes, The Lost Tapes and The Greatest Dream I Never Had, with both Kurupt and DJ Drama, respectively.