Antwan Wiggins, known professionally as Awon, was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New
York, and emerged as an American hip‑hop recording artist. In 2014 he co‑founded
the record label Don’t Sleep with Phoniks, and the two also released the project
Return to the Golden Era (2013) and its remix edition Return to the Golden Era:
The Remixes (2014). Awon has worked with prominent hip‑hop figures such as
Little Brother, Common, EPMD, MC Lyte, and Oddisee.