Born in Brooklyn, raised in Long Island, RYU BLACK (aka ADUM⁷) is a music producer, MC, and visual artist that is know for his "concept-heavy production that contains a crazy amount of Japanese pop culture references, video game geek-speak, digital sound bites, knuckle-cracking action skits..." - St. Paco of Kung Fu Grip! Described by The Japan Times to have "...a style that brings to mind the likes of RZA and MF Doom,” he was featured in Black Enterprise for successfully funding his solo album/Hip-Hopera "Perfect 天" - which is a tribute to the Street Fighter video game and many of it's world warriors. Musically he's also worked with NIKE, Capcom, Warner Japan, and Eric Bobo (Cypress Hill) while moonlighting to model and secure sponsorship opportunities in Tokyo, Japan. Formerly known as MeccaGodZilla (via MF DOOM’s Monsta Island Czars), RYU BLACK went on to receive 1 Million+ downloads on the Mininova for “American Monsta: the Jay-Z American Gangster Remix album.” In 2012, the success of his efforts led to a collaboration on Capcom’s 25th-anniversary box set of the game Street Fighter II. In 2018, he became an official Hip-Hop ambassador of the USA via the Next Level USA. Next Level is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Meridian International Center whose mission is to use Hip-Hop music, dance, and art to foster cross-cultural creative exchange in diverse communities all over the world.