Kid Ink’s “Show Me” Certified Platinum
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Rising West Coast rap star Kid Ink continues to take over 2014. With over one million sales, his smash single “Show Me” featuring Chris Brown has officially been certified Platinum by RIAA as it enters its second week at #1 on Urban Mainstream radio.Kid Ink continues to shine on the stage as well as on the charts and has added 8 new tour dates to his “My Own Lane” North American tour presented by Live Nation’s “Ones to Watch”concert series with Skype. Kicking off April 1st at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom, joining Ink on tour is Baltimore rapper King Los and Miami MC Bizzy Crook. Additionally, Kid Ink has been tapped to perform for “mtvU Spring Break 2014” in Cancun, Mexico along with Trey Songz, Cash Cash andAfrojack; which will air the week of March 31, 2014 across mtvU, MTV, MTV2 and MTV Jams.Released January 7th 2014, My Own Lane entered at #1 on Billboard’s Rap Albums chart, #2 on Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and #3 on both the Top 200 and Top Digital Albums charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan. USA Today calls Ink “…one of rap’s hottest up-and-comers…,” while LA Weekly states “if you haven’t heard of Kid Ink, you’re quickly becoming the minority.” In addition to Chris Brown on the platinum selling single “Show Me,” My Own Lane features notable guest appearances by A$AP Ferg, Pusha T, Wale, August Alsina, King Los, Meek Mill, French Montana and Elle Varner. The album also showcases an onslaught of head-nodding production by DJ Mustard, Danja, The Runners, DZL and more.
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Two-time Grammy Award winner T-Pain, will release T-Pain Presents Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits on November 4, 2014 via Nappy Boy Entertainment/Konvict Muzik/RCA Records. The 13 track project will feature T-Pain’s collection of hit songs including new single, “Drankin’ Patna,” and classics such as “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” “Can’t Believe It” and “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)” among others.Since his debut in 2005, T-Pain has become a fixture on both the radio and sales charts releasing a total of four studio albums. To date, T-Pain has sold over 17 million digital singles as well as 2.3 million albums in the U.S. alone. In addition, the musician has a total of sixteen #1 singles and has produced and/or been featured on over 45 top ten songs.Fader recently had the following to say about the musician’s career, “T-Pain’s Auto-Tuned influenced on the last decade of music is undeniable, he’s still also a reliable creator of good jams ten years after he started.” Not to mention, “Drankin’ Patna” has also received rousing reviews with Entertainment Weekly calling the single, “a return to the joyful hedonism and bouncing strip club beats of his early hits, and it serves as a potent reminder of exactly what the pop world was missing during his time away.”T-Pain recently completed his “Drankin’ Patna” U.S. tour, which was sponsored by Moskato Life and hit 17 cities including Chicago, Atlanta and Miami. His performance received rave reviews with New Times Broward-Palm Beach calling T-Pain, “an incredible entertainer” and Noisey calling the show “consistently entertaining.”At the age of 29, T-Pain has managed to build a 