Meda

Albanian

Raised Norfolk, VA within a culture that lacked formal education, little spiritual understanding and frequent violence life appeared to most hard, unfair and hopeless. Somehow Nasia's perspective focused on the possibility to overcome than become a victim. Listen as he brings light to tragedy, understanding to poverty, and insight beyond his years through a genre of music he has loved his whole life. At an early age Nasia found relief in storytelling and poetry. At age 15 his older cousin who rapped introduced him to a way to make his poetry flow over beats, this was his first interaction with rhyming. He soon became obsessed with the idea of making poems and stories sound musical. Nasia soon began to consume any Hip-Hop he could grab, with Nas, Outkast, W-Tang and Mase being huge early influences. He soon began to seek to share his music and rapping skills, performing at open mics and any cypher or street battle he could find. He with friends become apart of a local label group called “Water Works Music”. Under Water Works the label released a compilation project called 6 months or better. He later began to record more frequently and amassed a great deal of music outside of the group and in 2006 released a solo project called “Truth Shines” under his former stage name “Meda”. He went on to release a second project independently in 2010 called “My First Life”. His personal life then began to take a different turn after being introduced to the message of ...