From the grimy streets of Pine Bluff, Arkansas K-Diamondz began free styling in high school and made his first mix tapes in college. The new rap artist got his first lessons on distribution when he decided to sell his music while he was delivering pizza for Papa Johns. Underground rap had just reached a plateau in the summer of 2002 and he definitely wanted a piece of the action. Why were most new rap artist were only hustling? K-Diamondz was in college, hustling, throwing parties and hosting his own radio show "Street Radio." After graduating from college he interned for TVT records for 6 months and sold cd's for money. After interning from college he moved to Dallas, TX where he released the underground classic "Let Me In." Two years later he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his rap career. Since then he has went on to work with producer Dieon Evans who produced "Brenda's Got a Baby" for Tupac and Roe from the group Something for the People who has produced for Brandy' and Neyo. His 2005 mix tape "Will Rap for Food" sold over 25,000 copies in Arkansas, California, and Texas. After living on the West Coast for a few years K-Diamondz decided to move back to Dallas and start his own record label Street Pop Records. Currently he insists that he is the number one new rap artist in hip-hop, and according to myspace.com K-Diamondz may be the number one new rap artist. Take a listen to the new single Diamond Shinin and Come Home Wit Me, which was rated hip-hop song of the year by Street Scholars magazine and received over 5,000 hits in two days. His new cd Diamondz Shinin has sold over 7,000 units as of today. You can catch the hot new rap artist performing at various spots through out the DFW metroplex. He is currently working on the follow up to Diamondz Shinin, "The Money Train." The album will include production from Joe Warlick formerly Aftermath Records, Mitrxx the Mad Scientist and Dallas based heat maker Goldfinger.