Shabazz Baidoo

Shabazz Baidoo
Personal information
Full name Shabazz Kwame Kussie Baidoo[1]
Date of birth (1988-04-13) 13 April 1988[1]
Place of birth Hackney, England
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Playing position Striker
Number 22[2]
Youth career
Tottenham Hotspur
Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 Queens Park Rangers 28 (3)
2007 → Gillingham (loan) 0 (0)
2008 Dagenham & Redbridge 3 (0)
2008 Lewes 5 (0)
2008–2010 Croydon Athletic
2010 Bishop's Stortford
2010–2012 Croydon Athletic
2012 Wealdstone 7 (1)
2013– Biggleswade Town
National team
2003 England U16 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:12, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Shabazz Kwame Kussie Baidoo (born 13 April 1988) is an English professional footballer of Ghanaian and Montserratian descent, who plays for Biggleswade Town in the Southern League Premier Division.

Football career

Born in Hackney, as a youngster Baidoo played at first for Tottenham Hotspur and then with rivals Arsenal. He later left Arsenal and had a trial at Norwich City before signing up for Queens Park Rangers.[3][4]

Baidoo burst onto the scenes rather prematurely, during an injury crisis for Ian Holloway's team towards the end of the 2004/05 season. He made his club debut aged just 16. The following two seasons saw Baidoo feature slightly more regularly, scoring four goals and making numerous substitute appearances and a few starts. However, with John Gregory becoming manager, Baidoo had been used sparingly and out of position, on the wing. Baidoo went on loan to Gillingham in December 2007, but failed to make an appearance for the club, returning to Loftus Road in the New Year. Altogether Baidoo was capped 33 times and scored four goals for QPR.[5][6]

On 17 January 2008, Baidoo's contract was terminated by mutual consent by QPR. On the same day he joined Dagenham & Redbridge on a deal that lasted until the end of the 2007–08 season. In September 2008 he joined Conference club Lewes on a monthly contract and was released from the club after such.[7][8] In October 2008 he moved on to Croydon Athletic.[9]

During the summer of 2013 Baidoo left Croydon to link up with Biggleswade Town.[4]

Musical career

As well as his career as a professional footballer, Baidoo has a music career under his performing name "MC Terminator", otherwise known as "T" or the "Darkside Pioneer". According to his GrimeForum page,[10] Baidoo's musical career is secondary to his footballing and is a recreational activity.

Baidoo is said to have created his own musical subgenre within Grime known as "darkside" which predominantly involves a "sluggish flow" coupled with violent lyrics. Some of his musical techniques include rhyming words with themselves and holding one syllable for an extended amount of time to allow a bar to pass. Sometimes Baidoo will even make use of one word lines in his lyrics.

During an April 2012 interview Baidoo spoke of his return to music with the release of a mix tape titled 'Darkside Pioneer'. He also went on to release an EP entitled the 'Friday the 13th" which was freely distributed.[11] On 19 December 2013, Baidoo released his highly anticipated Darkside Pioneer album.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hugman, Barry J. (ed) (2008). The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008–09. Mainstream. ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8.
  2. ↑ "Shabazz Baidoo". Sky Sports.com.
  3. ↑ "Dagenham recruit Gain and Baidoo". BBC News. 17 January 2008.
  4. 1 2 "FA Cup: How Biggleswade got ex-QPR man Shabazz Baidoo". BBC.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "QPR's Baidoo ends Gillingham loan". BBC.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Former QPR man makes unexpected comeback with Wealdstone". Killburn Tumes.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Striker Baidoo makes Lewes move". BBC.co.uk.
  8. ↑ "Shabazz Baidoo". Ex-Canaries.co.uk.
  9. ↑ "Shabazz Baidoo signs for Stones". Wealdstone FC.com.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
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