KHIA debut album 'Thug Misses' is in stores now and features the #1 most requested single "My Neck My Back (Lick It)." Click here to check it out now.

What song is causing such an incredible and exciting response from club goers and radio listeners alike? It’s the #1 most requested club song in a decade, fronted by the new poster girl for urban female empowerment, the “Ghetto Helen Reddy” a/k/a the “Millennium Millie Jackson,” simply known throughout the South as Khia. The song “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” is 2002’ s answer to Helen Reddy’s 1978 hit “I am woman, hear me roar,” with a decidedly ghetto twist, and is on fire across the nation.

Khia, pronounced Ki-ya, a female MC from Tampa was discovered by hip-hop impresario Michael “Taz” Willimas, CEO of Dirty Down records. Blessed with extraordinary lyrical skills, Khia’s inaugural release off her debut album Thug Misses, “F*ck Dem Other Hoes,” took the South by storm and logged in over 300 BDS detections at 30-plus P-1 stations, while her new single, “My Neck, My Back (Lick It),” is on fire all around the nation. With Top 5 phones in markets like New York, Seattle, Denver, Miami and San Francisco and over 5000 spins on 50+ stations the song is destined to reach #1. “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” is a rallying cry for every sista tired of the fellas always getting theirs without having any concept of turnabout being fair play. And just when you thought it was safe to go out clubbing Khia smacks you dead in the grill with the Dirty South Dance anthem of the year “The K-Wang.”

You would have to be a hermit to not know that the South has indeed risen again, this time as a revolutionary force in urban contemporary music. The Dirty South, as it is know around the bayous, hoods and honky tonks, has been the source of a legion of hit records, with as many platinum producers, artists and multi-million dollar record labels as there are magnolias in Mississippi. By now, you know the science from Master P and No Limit, The Dungeon Family, Cash Money Records, Ludacriss and Slip ‘n Slide to Timbaland, Missy and Jermaine Dupri, the urban contemporary world is knee deep and awash in crawfish, cornbread and collard greens-laced funk.

With New Orleans, Atlanta and Miami having laid claim to a large chunk of the urban contemporary Soundscan pie the newest scene to blow up is Tampa, Florida. Not to be outdone by the labels mentioned above, Tampa, the hotbed of yesteryear’s booty music (95 South and 69 Boyz), is sure to horn in and ride the Dirty South’s wave of prosperity and, in the process, carve out new platinum territory… the artists poised to usher in this new era of musical prosperity in Tampa is called Khia.

Take Khia’s unmatched lyrical ability, add the crisp production of Plat’num House Productions (former LaFace staff producers who have worked with such artists as Toni Braxton and TLC), and Ray Charles could see what it is about to jump off! Khia is next…ya heard?
 

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