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With his college degree out of the way and a helicopter pilot’s license under his belt, OMEGA returned to rocking the mic in grand style. The year was 1999. The Album was called Secret Agent. It was, and still is, the only real hip-hop opera ever recorded. It tells the story of a spy who goes under cover to rescue rap from the clutches of commercialism. Loaded with wit and innuendo, this classic LP deals with themes on many levels - from obvious and political to deep and introspective. Even the sleeve art is fire. Ironically, Ken OMEGA drew it a year or so before thinking of the title ‘Secret Agent’, or even realizing that he would ever do an album by that name. A copy of the limited edition Secret Agent CD can be obtained at the KENOMEGA.COM Online Store or at busybos.com.
By the fall of 2005, OMEGA had organized High Rollers. This was a team of MC’s consisting of himself, Fortune 500 and Bazz Boogie. The idea was to keep it street. And that they did. "Yo. We promoted that CD on Craigslist and other online bulletin boards and people were still feinding!" OMEGA interjects. "That was all the affirmation I needed. The streets knew what was good! And they still do. ‘Greatest Story Ever Told’ and ‘Superstarz’ are the last street cuts I’ll ever have to make.
There’s a whole lot of other flavor on there too – like ‘Be Somebody’, ‘Get Lit’, ‘Deuces Wild’ – the list goes on."

The High Roller Mix CD Vlume one was released for online purchase in early 2006. And by that spring and summer the streets were buzzing hard. High Rollers drifted apart over the summer of 2006 however. And it remains to be seen if they’ll ever come with a follow up. " I think we just saw the writing on the wall," says OMEGA. "Technology has obliterated record sales. Labels aren’t signing. And as an independent artist that basically makes records in my house, I’m not exactly able to bankroll a tour bus. Plus, I love to spit. But all the other bullshit that goes along with the hip hop game, I can do without." Several of the cuts from the High Roller Mix CD Volume One can be heard at busybos.com. As for the future of High Rollers, we can only hope to hear more.
Most recently, KEN OMEGA is behind the scenes making tracks, illustrating, writing literature, and doing voice over / jingle work. His voice can be heard on the theme for the television show "Half Way Home" (Comedy Central). And don’t be surprised if some Saturday morning in the near future you turn on your TV and see the Ken OMEGA animated cartoon, "Secret Agent™".

The Secret Agent™ cartoon was inspired by Ken's LP of the same name. Yet it has evolved into an exlcusive entity. The cartoon is still in production. However excerpts will be made available for viewing as they are completed.

Years deep in the entertainment world, KEN OMEGA is still at it. Since the years as the early 90’s MC, Bosco Money, through the Bos OMEGA stage to now, Ken OMEGA™ is still a producer of highly original and publicly loved artistic works in several mediums; music, art, animation.

As far as the different personal handles, Ken has this to say, "Mom and Dad named me Kenneth. ‘Bosco’ was my tag and then my rhyming name back in the day. OMEGA is who I am now - what I realize over the years is where it was all headed. Any connotation of the word ‘omega’ works for me; The ‘ultimate’; ‘infinity’; even the 70’s movie, ‘The Omega Man’, where Charlton Heston was like the last normal person left in a post apocalyptic world of mutants. Sometimes I feel all alone like that. And if you still want to call me ‘BOS’, that’s cool too. Nowadays it stands for: Bos OMEGA Syndicated. Right now, friends call me 'Ken'; MC's call me 'OHM'."

We call Ken OMEGA a creative beast.
A well-known vocalist for years, Ken OMEGA still works both in front and behind the multi-media scene. Formerly known as Bosco Money - the voice of the hip-hop duo, Downtown Science (Def Jam / Sony) – Ken OMEGA has since gone on to drop many highly acclaimed independent releases. Almost all of these, he produced on his own. Many people don’t know that the majority of the music on the Downtown Science LP was actually originated by OMEGA as well. "I never really pushed the agenda of letting people know that," says Ken. "But when I read reviews or comments online, and people give my ex-partner credit for work that was actually done by me, I get a little annoyed. So I’d like to set the record straight once and for all: On the Downtown Science LP, I produced ‘Room to Breathe’, ‘Out There But In There’, ‘This is a Visit’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Fat Shout’, ‘The Topic Drift’, ‘Saw You At The Party’, and ‘Keep It On’. ‘Catch The Wave’ and ‘Natural People’ were also my ideas both lyrically and musically. On ‘Radioactive’, I wrote the melody, bassline and the vocals, and my partner did the beat. That song was actually a B-Boy record before Russell gave me a hard time about it being too ‘streety’. I thought that’s what hip hop was." Incidentally, the name ‘Downtown Science’ was also Bos’ creation.
After Def Jam, OMEGA (then still Bosco Money) dropped the underground 12-inch, "I Get Lifted" b/w "Ride the B Side". He produced that single in his apartment in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The actual recording went down in a basement lab on Wooster Street in Soho, NYC. Bos followed the release of that single with another called "Cleptomania" on which he recruited fellow Brooklyn MC’s Lon Scotch and Derek Dee. The streets felt that one too. The next release was an underground classic called ‘Da Plan’.
Ask any true hip-hop DJ about that one. It needs no explanation. Like "Ride The B Side", on ‘Da Plan’, Bos basically invented a flow that has often been imitated but has yet to be duplicated. In fact, throughout the 1990’s Bosco Money was probably the most plagiarized MC in the game. Similar situations have been known to occur in the Jazz genre. Collector’s are willing to pay $100 and more for a copy of "Da Plan" 12-inch on vinyl. The same goes for "I Get Lifted" and Ride the B Side" – two well-known underground classics. You can hear all these cuts and more at busybos.com.
An epic work of beats and rhymes now out of the way, OMEGA - still bored with rap’s commercial state – moved on to classic rock. He produced the album ‘Rock Star’ (Still as Bosco Money) in his living room in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with not so much as a vocal booth. The album is predominantly funk, with nods to various other aspects of the classic rock realm. There’s even a little edgy rap. About Rock Star, Ken says, "The high point of that project was when Q104.3FM – the Classic Rock station here in New York City aired the lead off cut, ‘Sun God’, not once but twice! I didn’t have any promotion in place for that album. It was pure love! I guess they just liked the song. Big up Jonathan Clarke and Q104.3’s ‘Out of the Box show!’" More information on the Rock Star LP is available at Busybos,com.
Rock Star was completed and released online in 2002. By 2003, after a one-month stint backpacking in Thailand and Cambodia, OMEGA was back in New York and back in the lab.
This time the mission was hip-hop once again. Ken teamed up with fellow MC, Fortune 500 to drop a banging underground CD called "OMEGA 710".
"Originally, ‘OMEGA’ was a concept," remarks Ken. "It involved a lot of conspiracy theory and metaphysical trains of thought. But ultimately I realized that these were all just extensions of who I was. Plus I dug the name. So I dropped the ‘Money’ and began calling myself 'Bos OMEGA' at that time."
"Omega 710" was another LP with no promotion behind it. Yet several of the cuts – ‘All Jokes Aside’, ‘Is You Is’, ‘Heat’, and ‘Ballyhoo’ – still managed to find there way to the airwaves of Power 105.1 and Hot 97, the top hip hop radio stations in New York. Many an underground station around the country also showed respect.
Next came the ‘Meteor EP’ in 2004. Still under the influence of Conspiracy Theories, Outer Space and UFO’s, OMEGA used this 5-song EP to finish getting those matters off his chest. All the cuts are hot. The most popular are "Get Back" and "Spy story" simply since they are so easily accessible. Yet the lyrics flows, and beats on the entire work – particularly those on the title cut, ‘Meteor’ – are superior. As usual Ken OMEGA is light years ahead of the rest.
That same year, OMEGA knocked down the metal-rap banger, ‘TV’, for the Yohimbe Brothers. It appeared on their album, "The Tao of Yo". "TV" is a monster! Vernon Reid and DJ logic (collectively know as the Yohimbe Brothers) created the music, which was recorded and co-produced by the production team Good and Evil at Good and Evil Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The label, Thirsty Ear Recordings, steered the LP toward the jazz market however. And there was no video. So the cut never got the proper exposure. Still, OMEGA is in rare form both vocally and lyrically. And the music is out of control!
The mid-1990’s was a prolific time for Ken OMEGA. There are still several incredible songs he recorded (as Bosco Money) that have yet to be heard by the public at large. "Someday I might throw up some mp3’s," says OMEGA. "But I’ve got other stuff on the front burner right now." We’ll get to those momentarily.
After a brief stint in Europe producing an album for an Italy-based rap group, Ken OMEGA™ returned to the States and disappeared from the music scene for a while. This was in order to finish his four-year degree (BS Special Studies – Business and Aviation) and to start flying helicopters. OMEGA is still an active helicopter pilot with close two 200 hours flight time, who takes to the cockpit when he’s not writing a jingle or working on one of his current creative projects.
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