Big City (also known as Jemini Smith) is truly the definition of a Renaissance artist.
He began his career as a critically acclaimed recording artist on Polygram Records and has since received critical acclaim as an international recording artist.
As Jemini, Big City has been featured in numerous national publications, including XXL, The Source, The New Yorker, King, and Spin Magazine, to name just a few. Internationally, he’s been covered even more extensively. Throughout his career, Big City has consistently expanded his creative and artistic range to include roles as a documentary film producer (Memoirs of an M.C.), screenwriter, songwriter, TV show writer, jingle writer, event producer (Suare Nation), CEO of Stone City Digital LLC, and founder of a T-shirt and apparel company (The GR8 Art T-Shirt Co.).
As an event producer, Big City was one of the organizers of the Liberation of Art of Emory Douglas event, held in the D.U.M.B.O. section of Brooklyn. This multicultural event celebrated and reintroduced the public to the art of the legendary Emory Douglas, whose work chronicled the struggle for black liberation and that of the Black Panther Party. Big City’s event production company has since organized events like the Suare Nation Rare Grooves Vinyl Party in Lower East Side Manhattan and the Suare Nation Comedy Jam (seen on YouTube).
In cinema, Big City partnered with Togolu Studios to co-produce and feature in their independent documentary film ‘Memoirs of an M.C.’ He also wrote and produced the soundtrack for the film, which explores the human side of hip-hop.
As a recording artist (under his former moniker Jemini), Big City has performed across the U.S. He performed in Toronto, Canada, with rapper Pharoah Monch and R&B recording artist Glen Lewis, promoting the Canadian release of ‘Rudamental 2K’, which won a Juno Award. He later recorded the critically acclaimed U.K. release ‘Ghetto Pop Life’, which helped launch the career of his then groupmate, producer Danger Mouse. Through this collaboration, Big City (as Jemini) was reintroduced to the European market and toured extensively in countries such as Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, and England, including multiple tour dates in London and appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals
