BornKing

Baltimore, MD, USA

Born King aka Killafifth, has been called a prolific rapper, releasing two albums a year, one on his birthday and one on Halloween. His 2007 album, Kradedis was heavily anticipated and sold out at The Sound Garden in Baltimore, Maryland. It went on to house two Baltimore anthems, one in particular, “Blue Lights”, gained attention from its criticism of the Baltimore police department's surveillance camera campaign; it made it on Al Shipley’s Government Names 5th Anniversary Retrospective list. The second anthem, “A Better Way”, focuses on the struggles of the everyday blue-collar worker with no hope in site, and spread through Baltimore’s underground hip-hop scene through word-of-mouth. In 2008 under the name Killa Fifth, Born King released, The Secret Order, an album containing lyrical and abstract content, it was reviewed by Al Shipley for the City Paper being recognized for its “uncompromising music and murky sonics”; it continues to garner attention through popular file-sharing site