Timbuktu Biography

Timbuktu


Timbuktu has earned a reputation as Sweden's most influential political hip-hop and rap crossover artist, called by some "the rapper even your grandma knows." Born January 11, 1975, Jason Michael Robinson Diakite's African-American father and Swedish mother spent time living in both Sweden and...

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