KEIGHLEY hip-hop promoter Saby Khan is heading to the Big Apple for his latest hip-hop event.

Saby, also known as Sabir Hussain, will host the charity event in New York on December 8 featuring DJ King Assassin, original producer and DJ for the legendary, late rapper Tupac.

Saby said he recently transferred his media company to central Leeds to cope with high demand from international clients for event and filming work.

The former Greenhead High School student said: “I had been selected out of 45 promoters by DJ King Assassin to help him promote his first-ever NYC date at the West Lounge in Manhattan.”

Saby said he was looking forward to organising the star’s UK tour next year.

In a separate project, Saby has been offered government funding for his own feature film, Snitch is King, planned for 2019 and starring UK rapper Fonzi and American rapper Pakarmz.

Sabir Hussain grew up in Keighley, attending Greenhead High School, then while at Keighley College began organising local dance and hip-hop events. Starting his own company, Goodfellaz Promotions, he ran regional then national music events and began organising after-show parties for well-known hip-hop performers like Black Eyed Peas and 50 Cent.

In recent years he has organised several music events in Dubai. A long-time campaigner for racial harmony, Saby has also encouraged Keighley and Bradford rappers and singers to take part in his international performances.

During the summer Saby received a Best Broadcaster award for his volunteer role as a presenter on the Bradford Asian Radios.

Also this year, Saby and his teenage son Samad travelled to Pakistan and Abu Dhabi to take part in a Bollywood film, Jackpot, in which Saby played a villain alongside stars such as Javed Sheikh, Sanam Choudry and Reyhna Malhotra.

Saby and former media student Samad went on to make a short film, entitled Prey on Young, that showed how drug dealers lure youngsters into a life of crime. The movie, filmed around Keighley, was selected for the Yonkers Film Festival in New York, but Saby said it attracted abuse and intimidation from local thugs angered at the stand he had taken against their behaviour.