Action Bronson, is an American

United States

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 rap

Hip hop music

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per, with Albanian descent. His stage name derives from gangster William "Action" Jackson, and tough-guy actor Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...

.

Background

Action was born and raised in Flushing, Queens

Flushing, Queens

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, He is Jewish-Albanian. He loves and regularly eats at "Roti Boti" in New York City

New York City

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, and frequently raps about food in his songs because he is a respected fire-flame streetgourmet chef. He has gained notoriety lyrically and stylistically resembling to rapper Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah

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 (who he collaborated with, along with friend, and fellow rapper Termanology

Termanology

Daniel Carrillo , better known as Termanology is a rapper from Lawrence, Massachusetts. He first came to wide attention with the 2006 single "Watch How It Go Down". A solo album, Politics As Usual, was released in 2008...

 on a song called "Meteor Hammer" on Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Clan

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's 2011 album Legendary Weapons

Legendary Weapons

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). In a interview with HipHopDX, he was asked about how it was to sound like him, and he responded with, He recently released his debut studio album Dr. Lecter, which is available in digital download.

Collaboration albums

• The Program EP (with Don Producci) (2010)
• Well Done (with Statik Selektah
  Statik Selektah
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  ) (November 22, 2011)