DJ Modesty - Killa Sha "Rest In Peace" The Real Hip-Hop Show Dedicated Mixtape

With all the quasi-news about Tiger Woods going on and Hip-Hop for some reason diving into that madness along w/ everyone else, some have forgotten that just recently we lost one of QB's and Hip-Hop's most dedicated soldiers, Killa Sha...

French deejay and personality DJ Modesty, who is no stranger to Queens artists, has stepped up and mixed together 38 of Sha's best tracks as well as an exclusive interview he conducted with Sha back in the day for this brand new tribute mixtape...

spotted via Unkut.com

-BIG D O


DJ Modesty - Killa Sha "Rest In Peace" The Real Hip-Hop Show Dedicated Mixtape

Interview: J-Love Remembers Killa Sha For Unkut.com

For years DJ/producer and mixtape force J-Love collaborated with his good friend Killa Sha and made great music...as we know, it's only been a week or so since we lost Sha, but for some, like J, it probably feels like it was just yesterday that he was dapping up his friend.

J, along with a few of Sha's other close collaborators and peoples (DJ Phantom, DJ Peter Parker, The Thorotracks) were kind enough to get up with Robbie of Unkut.com and share some candid stories about the man that pridefully hid his disease, routinely stood up to others twice his size and had a deep love for big boned women...

-BIG D O

J-Love: It was maybe 2000 or so when I was doin’ the old Stretch & Bobitto Show – me and Lord Sear took over when Bob and Stretch left. Sear and Killa Sha were always real close, so he started coming to the show and we just clicked and we built from there. It was funny too, ‘cos you know I’m the kind of cat I snap on a lotta niggas – I don’t really give a fuck. So he went at me first – we was on the air, he called me, ‘Jason Giambi’ or some funny shit. I was like, ‘Yeah? Nigga, you look like a rapping Webster!’ We just always had that chemistry, that bond. We could just joke around, have fun – lock you in and make some banging music. He was a worker like me – he was the type like, ‘Yo, son, let’s bang this out’. Sha was like money. Writin’ a verse on the spot, goin’ in, knock it out in one or two takes. He definitely had his craft mastered. I feel like Sha was one of the nicest cats outta Queensbridge that just got overlooked, because he wasn’t ‘industry popular’ or whatever. That nigga was motherfuckin’ perfectionist, too. He would be in the booth ‘till he gets it right. I might have a hundred songs with Killa Sha that people never even heard yet.

He liked the big fat girls. He was like, ‘Yeah! I love it! I wanna jump inside something that weighs three times more than me!’ We used to always joke about it, ‘Yeah, you like sleeping with those fat girls, ‘cos it keeps your little body warm!’ He got this song over Busta’s ‘NY Shit’ – ‘I’m on my fat girl shit!’ He didn’t hold his tongue, he was four-foot nothin’! He might’ve been 4’10” – Sha was short, bro! But he carried himself like a giant! I seen him riff the big niggas, like ‘Fuck you, daddy! Nigga, I’ll shoot you! What!?’ [laughs] It’s little stupid shit, like me and him was always going to the diner and I’d order a big meal and he’d just order chicken noodle soup! I used to find that shit mad funny.

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Single: Planet Asia ft. Killa Sha - Pain Language (Alchemist Remix)

A day after we learned of his untimely death, The Alchemist and PA pay respects to the late Killa Sha through an excellent remix effort that features some new vocals from Sha Lumie himself...

A vivid and airy Alchemist production is the perfect backdrop for both Asia's and Sha's brutally honest bars...We're reminded how nice Sha was here in a big, big way....

-BIG D O


Planet Asia ft. Kill Sha - Pain Language (Alchemist Remix)

News: Killa Sha Passes Away

It's with a heavy heart that I bring you guys the tremendously saddening news that longtime Queensbridge rapper and producer Killa Sha AKA Sha-Lumi AKA Prince A.D. passed away this weekend.....

Apparently despite his slight frame Sha battled with a serious Diabetes problem for years and eventually the disease just won out...

Known as one of the grimiest emcee's in the game who possessed one of the most distinct voices we've ever heard, Sha was a staple in Queens hardcore and underground Hip-Hop. A member of his own group the Killa Kidz who released a sorted number of 12" vinyl singles over the years, Sha lived Hip-Hop. He was definitely grounded but also collaborated many times with Queens and Queensbridge royalty like Large Professor, Marley Marl, Cormega, Noreaga, Imam Thug, Screwball, Mobb Deep and perhaps most frequently, Tragedy Khadafi.

Sha released several street albums/mixtapes including "The Black Eminem", "Da Billy Coles Story" and most recently his 2007 retail debut "God Walk On Water". If you really kept up with him and have seen the crates upon crates of records in the background of his crib while he did interviews, you know that he also doubled was a producer. Regrettably I don't have a full list of joints that he produced or had a hand in producing at this time...

A noted talent taken far too soon....R.I.P. Prince A.D.

-BIG D O