Artist: Kia Shine
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Due Season
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Southern producer and rapper Kia Shine, aka Kinfolk Kia Shine, relied on his passion and knack for making tricky beat generation and maulers to pull up himself out of frightening situations. Born and elevated in Memphis, TN, Shine left the troubled Frazer section of Memphis for greener pastures, working in the collective offices of a major gambling casino empire. When he was presented with the opportunity to submit a promotional material and an $80,000 earnings at the company's Las Vegas headquarters, he turned it down to pursue music. With his well-educated business expertness, he decided to fund and bring forth his small brother's hip-hop mathematical group, L.I., around 1998. Going by Nakia Shine at the time, he besides tested to shop L.I.'s material around to different labels in New York, merely alternatively wound up marketing the beat generation. After acquiring a production deal with Ruff Ryders and a publication undertake with Universal, he returned to Memphis, collected up all the producers he could bump, and founded Rap Hustlaz, a production squad and record mark co-owned with pardner Jack Frost. He and so acquired distribution through TVT in the early 2000s and signed many of Memphis' local heavy-hitters, wish Yo Gotti and Gangsta Blac. Things were on the up and up for Shine. His label sold hundreds of thousands of units, asset he was landing beat generation for major Southern rappers, including Juvenile, 8Ball, and Ludacris. Nevertheless, his dealings with TVT had gone lopsided, which caused his artists to defect from the Rap Hustlaz label, going Shine homeless and living out of his railroad car. He and so decided that he would have to step into the mic kiosk and make solo corporeal in rules of order to recoil. His first base single, "Respect My Fresh," was a local nail reach in Memphis in 2006, earning him another deal with Universal Motown. A few more than infectious club hits, namely "Stunt Glasses at Night" and "Krispy," followed and made their way onto national airwaves. Shine's debut record album, Due Season, arrived in summer 2007.
