The rapper and songwriter known as Nina
Maria has released a new LP hip hop album, “Roll the Dice.” The
record has been proudly published on the Coinxiding Arts
Entertainment independent music label outside the direction and
control of the corporate music industry. It contains 30 original
tracks for a grand total of two hours and 20 minutes' worth of
freestyle hip hop. Remarkably creative, evocative, and introspective,
“Roll the Dice” by Nina Maria is a record unlike any other.
Nina Maria cites as main artistic
influences Lil Flip, Mobb Deep, and Celly Cell. Her own “Roll the
Dice” album is unlike these, however, and indeed unlike most rap
artists' work, in that all of her recorded tracks are freestyle.
Maria's ability to do this is perhaps not surprising in light of her
high-school GPA of 5.0.
Often rapping about her life and
perspectives about the world at large, Nina Maria is one of the most
heartfelt and genuine artists in rap music today.
“I just hope y'all like the music,”
writes Nina Maria. “I haven't had musical training since elementary
school. And I didn't even practice then. So I play by ear any
instrument I hold. It's my soul... And I freestyle all or most of my
music, cuz new is never old.”
Even besides her ability to publish a
freestyle-rap record more than two hours long, Nina Maria is an
exceptional human being. Among her experiences include a tour with
the United States Marine Corps as a small-computer systems
specialist, an abusive relationship, a nervous breakdown, and
suffering from schizoaffective disorder.
Maria's luck turned far worse when she
stopped taking her medication and became homeless. She bounced around
St. Louis homeless shelters but became increasingly ill without her
medicine. Eventually she was so sick, she was misidentified as the
culprit of a shooting in the area. Up against 30 years, she took a
four-year plea bargain and did two years inside, two years parole.
“By God's grace, He got me back to
Eolia, Missouri,” writes Maria.
She would later perform, record and
publish four digital music records. “Roll the Dice” is only the
newest. A common theme of these records are the trials and
complications of having been born a hermaphrodite, and Maria's
ongoing success as a transgender woman.
“When I just had a CD Walkman,”
Maria says, “I would pray and give thanks that even though I walk
through the valley of death, He comforts and protects me.”
“Roll the Dice” by Nina Maria is
available now at over 700 digital music outlets online worldwide.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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