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Kia Shine

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Nakia Shine Coleman (born October 17, 1980) is an American rapper and record producer.

Music career

His most successful single, "Krispy", peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number 24 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart."Crispy" (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart), Billboard, September 15, 2007."Crispy" (Hot Rap Tracks chart), Billboard, July 21, 2007. He has worked with artists like B-Hoody, La Chat, Mike Jones, Yo Gotti, Kingpin Skinny Pimp, Nelly, Jim Jones, Blak Jak, Wifey, and more. His aliases are Nakia Shine, Kinfolk, Kia Shine, and Kinfolk Jones. In August 2006, he hosted an episode of BET's Rap City. He signed a deal with Universal Records. Kinfolk Kia Shine is a co-CEO with rapper/CEO Jack Frost of Rap Hustlaz. Kia Shine won the Southern Entertainment Award (S.E.A.) this year for best underground artist having sold over 200,000 albums with his independent label, Rap Hustlaz. He is often associated with Yo Gotti and Kingpin Skinny Pimp. Nakia Shine and Yo Gotti have also has spoken a lot about DJ Paul and Juicy J not helping out other rappers from the Memphis area. Paul and Juicy have major radio influence as they were both well known DJ's going back to the early 90's. Kia Shine is definitely not the first rapper from Memphis to have made this claim, in fact most members of Prophet Posse and other artists formerly with Triple Six Mafia have also stated this to be the case.
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