Dex McBean is a Brooklyn-born rapper, actor, and sketch comic, and a founding member of the rap group Ashy L Bowz, which won a 2010 Underground Music Award for “Most Original Group”, as well as Independent Music Award and Hollywood Music Award nominations in 2009. The Bowz were featured in High Times as an “Unsigned Band of the Week” which landed them a coveted performance at the Magazine’s legendary 420 Party.

Since working with the Bowz, Dex has stayed sharp in the New York hip-hop scene by competing regularly in the Supreme BARS and Freestyle Mondays battle series, winning seven titles and earning a reputation as a formidable and often hilarious improviser. His upcoming solo album “WeALTH: We All Live to Hustle” is a collection of twelve tracks that takes listeners back to school on the saving and investing habits they should have learned a long time ago.

Dex McBean recently made history at the UNEA-6 conference in Nairobi, Kenya, by performing the UN’s first-ever custom rap song. Co-created with Tanzanian rapper Frida Amani for the United Nations Environment Programme, the new song had its world premiere performance for the full assembly of delegates, including several heads of state.