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Due Season

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After being named under-ground artist of the year in 06' Kia Shine steps right up to the mainstream act and delivers us to Due Season. Fresh beats, krispy lyrics, and just the right amount of collabo's packs a good punch for a new breaking artist. Due Season's effort is strong and in my opinion lives up to the hype. It is a great first step for Kinfolk and I look forward to see more out of the Universal Motown artist in the future.
Keep it KRISPY !

Top 5:
1.) Krispy
2.) Respect My Fresh f/ Jack Frost
3.) I Be Everywhere f/ Jim Jones
4.) Bluff City Classic f/ MJG & 8 Ball
5.) W.O.W.

Honorable mention - Touch f/ Jack Frost & Wifey

This is one of the greatest low key, hip-hop albums around. Almost every song on this album, including WOW, Stunna Friends? (Frames), Respect my Flesh, and Bluff City Classic is crisp and hard-hitting. Kia Shine's lyrics are an uplifing and personal struggle filled with inspiration. This is where hip-hop should be today. Kia Shine's beats and cuts are at the same level, if not better, than Lil' Jon and Dr. Dre. Definetly keep an eye out for more. Kia Shine is an artist, not just another rapper.

If rap wasn't so terrible, Kia Shine wouldn't even think of making an album. Unfortunately for us, Hip Hop consumers are bombarded with awful artists, repetitive lyrics, and tired beats. "Wow" and "Krispy" are great examples of the genre's degradation. Though in "Wow" he responds to Nas' "Hip Hop is Dead" album with "Hip Hop ain't playin dead/It live in the south/It must be a lie/Cuz it just bought me a house/It just got me a deal," it's a poor play.

Sorry Kia, or Kinfolk if you prefer, but you ain't Hip Hop.

i see why soutrhern rappers are picked on it's not the south everybody it's the wack music that's coming from down here.

I remember I was reading the annual Love/Hate issue of XXL last year, and it stated that one of the worst rap songs of the year was by Kia Shine, and I was like, "WHO?" But I'm wishing I never heard of him after listening to Due Season.

Kia Shine has got to be the most unenthusiastic rapper I have ever heard. Whenever he tries to battle someone like on "Aiight", he delivers his words very monotonously, which I doubt will give many the perception of a threat. And the obligatory song for the ladies, "Holla at Ya Kinfolk" (Kinfolk being his nickname, which he annoyingly announces several times throughout every song), is really only average. Speaking of shouting catchphrases, Jim Jones actually outshines Kia on "I Be Everywhere".

But the most annoying thing about Kia is that all he ever talks about is either his jeans or his shoes, like on "Krispy" and "Respect My Fresh"; and I would just like to know who told him "W.O.W." DIDN'T have the weakest chorus ever. And occasionally Kia brags about his sunglasses ("Stunna Frames") or even computers and video games ("Tech Game").

Things don't work much better when he changes the subject; case in point: "Face Card" is a metaphor gone wrong. "Touch" sounds like a bad reworking of Ying Yang Twins' "Wait"; and although the 8Ball & MJG-assisted "Bluff City Classic" is censored on the album, it still sucks. Another thing is that this album is 79 minutes long, and it's mainly because the last track (which is the title track) is twelve minutes long, but the thing is, only the first four minutes have Kia rapping while the last eight is just him talking. Basically, if you're one of the three people that bought Due Season, lock it up somewhere to save your reputation because Kia ain't shinin' at all.

Anthony Rupert