Born King aka Killa Fifth is a Bmore MC that I started hearing about a few months ago from Bosslady, when she gave me a CD of his, which she said didn't really have any title and was just "the Born King street album." He's also got a compilation of older material called The Calm Before The Storm. A couple months ago, I posted his song "Blue Lights" from Bosslady's Baltimore State of Grind compilation, and C Love also wrote a post about him and that song. At the time, there was talk about him dropping a new album called Bornified King, but now on Born King's MySpace page, it looks like his forthcoming album is called Krad Edis (which is "dark side" backwards), and he's got a new label called Mad Thinkah Productions, so I don't know if he's still with Bosslady's H-O-P Records or what. Anyway, here's some tracks from the street album I got a few months ago.

Born King - "Baltimore Stand Up" (mp3)
This song was also on the Baltimore State Of Grind CD, and it's a banger.

Born King - "That's What The Future Holds" (mp3)
He does a lot of kind of somber, kind of conscious joints, and this is definitely my favorite of those, that bassline is hot.

Labels: Bosslady, mixtape/album review, mp3