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  • Genre: Hip Hop / Pop / Rap

    Location NEW YORK, New York, Un

    Profile Views: 103472

    Last Login: 3/9/2011

    Member Since 12/14/2007

    Record Label RAVENEL RECORDS

    Type of Label Major

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    .... .... .... .. .. .. .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ...... .. .......... .......... ............ ........ .... .......... .......... .......... ....Nina B on Youtube..    ..Nina B's Blog..    ..UStream..    ..Ning.. .. .. ........ .. .. .... ..“I thought I was everything I could be.” It is then that with a youthful uncertainty she reveals herself. At this point, after over an hour of talk regarding mom’s struggle, dad’s absentness, weed addiction, hospitalization, jail, anger, frustration and an unwillingness to settle on anything less than everything, who she is deep down, to me at least, was still vague. Through it all, she was rebellious and unwavering. At the point, when she was compelled by music, you can sense that she had finally surrendered to something. Both in eager anticipation and through resilient ferocity, Nina B’s journey takes form before her own eyes. Her own intuition charts a roadmap on just how she is going to conquer... ..The public has classified female rap music as an unentertaining form of organized noise. Even at its peak in the early ‘90s, sales figures have never matched the market share or notoriety of their male counterparts. With those odds, a female lyricist has a better shot at becoming president than winning a Grammy. What is clear, what is required from a rap icon is a mixture of everything we’ve never seen a female rap artist come to represent. You can say with confidence that no female Hip-Hop act has been consistent enough to captivate audiences, to sell consecutive records, to have more than 6 platinum albums. What you will discover about Nina B is her assertive boldness. Where her competition relies on sex to sell, she devotes her energy to recounting life realistically omitting an all too familiar emphasis on promiscuity. “The sex route is a cop out,” she maintains. “I’ve never been easily tempted.” Nina B is paving down a beaten path. She essentially plans to overcome all of the opposition while setting a new standard for success. Bold… I know, but necessary. That is her stance on the future; now about her past….. ..Piss poor, she was raised in the Bronx. Mom had a few drug addictions, one less easy to overcome. The darkest period for Nina B over a decade ago, was spent in Henry Street shelter with her family. She was only 14. “Things were good, things were bad, I had to make with what I had,” she articulates casually in verse. Back then, she went by the name of “Claudia” (you remember Interview with the Vampire), and after a substitute teacher inspired her to write, she began penning her accounts of life. She poured the cup of herself onto pages. She’s an artist, not an artist, but a real artist. “I draw, I got scrib- bles,” she continues “my rhyme book is my art book.” Through the written release of her story, Nina B’s talent begins to develop... ..The eldest of two kids, Nina has always played a leadership role. She was always a good student, even though she was habitually absent. Her thick eye-browed principal tried to break up one of her fights and was accidentally hit in the process, he sent her packing. She then migrated through alter-native schools around the city, landing in Brooklyn. Her mom was slowly getting back on her feet as she was increasingly losing interest in school. For a while she was in and out of court, but stopped smoking weed, and was working towards her GED. After a month, she passed her school mandated drug test, and rolled up a blunt to celebrate. The next day how- ever, they wanted to test her again. Nina threw a tantrum under the disguise of being offended, and slipped out of school nabbing some of her little brothers’ urine. Later she was obliged to confess, but school officials did not take her acting out so lightly. “They got some shit called Peter pays for Paul,” she testifies. Her stunt forced all of her classmates to be punished. She lived and learned, within a year she enrolled in another school and finished her GED... ..Now that High School was over, she enrolled in Gibbs, a fashion school in the heart of New York. It was there that she joined the Hip-Hop project, a youth-led organization that promotes the study of Hip-Hop culture, and met industry executive, Amber Ravenel. “To be honest, I never thought I would be working with a female emcee and that’s not a knock to women that rap, but the landscape that is Hip-Hop is so male dominated that it’s all we see. Nina B stood out. When I first met her, I learned that she designed her own clothing and her designs were unique, but it was when I listened to her music and could feel the potential coming through the speakers and saw the dedication that she puts into her writing that I knew she was something special,” says Ravenel... ..Surrounded by creative people in school, and with her newfound relationship with Amber, CEO of Ravenel Records, Nina now had an opportunity to share her music with the world. Her first project, “Live and Learn Vol. 1” made her notorious. Nina pioneered the guerilla marketing tactic of street promotion and hand-to-hand sales of mixtapes. For months, she and her street team could be found in front of Union Square’s Virgin Megastore selling her mixtapes to the thousands of music patrons hailing to the store. She is a hustler. “I had to have been making 100 a day, in front of Virgin… we was stealing the covers, and stealing the [blank] CD’s,” she recalls, “we had no other choice, we had to make a lot of money, and get our music out - that was our main goal. Everybody I approached, they remembered me.”.. ..In just a few years, she’s dropped six mixtapes and has received an Underground Music Award, Nina is still under estimated. Featured on such Hip-Hop sites all AllHipHip, 2DopeBoyz and etc. and in various media all across the nation, Nina has also been “Pick of The Week” on HOT97’s one time Morning Show with Miss Jones and DJ Envy. She has appeared on Rap City. Her music has hit the airwaves too, on such spots as DJ Kayslay’s Drama Hour, Cipher Sounds “Don’t Quite Your Day Job” segment and “On the Spot” with Green Lantern. Often compared to Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah and M.C. Lyte, Nina B intends to revive the Hip-Hop movement. Industry insider Animal Steele says, “Working with Nina B is a beautiful experience. When she steps into the booth, everything is filled with intense emotion and conviction.” Her legend lives on... ..This April, she released her most critically acclaimed work to date, “The Icon,” a Madonna mash-up, hosted by HOT97’s Dee Vazquez. The 12-song mixtape compiles some of Madonna’s most notorious hits laced with Nina B’s dynamic poetic address. The record boasts over 100,000 downloads on datpiff.com and over 900,000 views on worldstarhiphop.com. In response to her reflection of the works’ success, Nina explains, “I intro- duced people to Madonna who may never listen to Madonna. People who may never have listened to rap, have now been introduced to me… it’s a timeless project.” The enormous feedback from labels, critics and the press has led Nina to team up with video director Scenario to produce a catalog of videos to compliment the record. “Nina is a total talent. She is self aware and very easy to work with, we have chemistry,” Scenario affirms, “I knew Nina was really ready during the I get money remix. Her visual presence, lyrics that make u forget about her gender, and just from being a friend, and having random conversations, being the best in this genre of music is the only thing she thinks of.”.. ..Nina B is perceptive, driven, humble and confident. She is real, street, strong, poetic and she connects to audiences around the world. Her music is like a nearby explosive supernovae with her inner gravity pushing energy together. It inadvertently forms an illustrious star..... .. ..

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