I WAS BORN MARCH 15, IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. MY MOTHER, FATHER, I MOVED AROUND A LOT. WE MOVED TO MANY DIFFERENT STATES SUCH AS RICHMOND, VA AND MABELTON, GA. IN 1985 WE MOVED BACK TO NORTH CAROLINA. WE LIVED IN RURAL AREAS, USUSALLY IN HOMES WITHOUT RUNNING WATER. THINGS WERE PRETTY ROUGH LIVING WITH AN ALCOHOLIC FATHER. HE WOULD SPEND HIS WHOLE PAY CHECK ON ALCOHOL AND THAT FORCED MY MOM TO WORK TWO JOBS TO MAKE ENDS MEET. THERE WAS ALSO LOTS OF FIGHTS GOING ON.
I WAS INTRODUCED TO HIP-HOP IN 1984 BY MY AUNTIE. SHE USED TO PLAY THE FAT BOY’S RECORDS AND SHE ALSO ROCKED RUN-DMC RECORDS. AT FIRST I WAS NOT INTO HIP-HOP…I LOVED SOUL MUSIC LIKE MARVIN GAYE AND MICHEAL JACKSON. IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1989 THAT I WANTED TO BE A MC. MY FATHER WAS KILLED IN A HEAD ON CAR COLLISION IN 1991. I WAS LOST IN SPACE AND I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
WHEN I FIRST HEARD “THE HUMPTY DANCEâ€, BY DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, I WAS INTRIGUED BY WHAT I HEARD. I KNEW RIGHT THEN AND THERE THAT THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO DO. I STARTED BATTLING CATS AT SCHOOL IN THE HALLWAYS, IT ALL STARTED IN THE HALLWAYS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN VANCE HIGH. IT STARTED OUT WITH A FEW HEADS AND THEN TURNED INTO A EVERYDAY SPECTACLE. I NEVER LOST A BATTLE AT THE CYPHERS IN SCHOOL. IT WAS THEN THAT MY MOM BOUGHT ME A KAREOKE MACHINE. I STARTED MAKING TAPES AND GIVING THEM OUT AT SCHOOL.
I CREATED A BUZZ THROUGHOUT THE 1990’S. LATER I FORMED A GROUP WITH MY FAM CALLED THE ILLTYPES (C-ROY, KILLA KILL, BUDDAH, PROTAGE, L-SAY). WE GOT JERKED BY A PROMOTER AFTER WE DID NUMEROUS SHOWS THROUGHOUT NORTH CAROLINA. THE SHOWS LED TO A AUDITION AT THE APOLLO THEATER FOR AMATEUR NIGHT. WE WERE EACHED JERKED OUT OF $100 A PIECE AND THE MEMBERS WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.
IN 2002 I MET STONEY BLENDZ, HE WAS A LOCAL PRODUCER AND ENGINEER. HE HEARD ME RHYME AND GAVE ME THE CHANCE TO RECORD MY FIRST ALBUM CALLED “I DON’T EXISTâ€. WE CURRENTLY HAVE EIGHT ALBUMS ON THE SHELF. I AM ALSO A MEMBER OF THE WARRIORZ MOVEMENT OUTTA ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY (SHOUT OUT TO THEM SOUTH JERZ NIGGAZ). I AM STILL HITTING OPEN MIC NIGHTS AND SHARPENING MY SKILLS ON THE MIC. WHEN YOU LOVE DOING THIS, YOU WILL DO IT WITH OR WITHOUT A RECORD DEAL. I JUST WANNA PROVE, IT AIN’T JUST BLING AND CARS, MONEY AND FLASH, IT IS A BIG PART OF SOUTHERN CULTURE AND IT IS BEING REPRESENTED, BUT IT IS ALSO A EVERYDAY STRUGGLE, AND ALOT OF HARD WORK GOES INTO THE IMAGES YOU SEE, THE SOUTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE UNDERDOG, MUCH LIKE MYSELF, HENDERSON HAS A STORY TO TELL, EVERYTHING THAT GLITTERS AIN’T GOLD, RATHER THAN JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON, I’M GOING TO TELL MY STORY AND GIVE MY PERSPECTIVE, DICK RIDING AIN’T MY THANG!!!
WE HAVE RELEASED THE WARNING SHOT MIXTAPE. IT FEATURES PRODUCTION FROM G-RATED AKA UTAH’S MOST WANTED, JACKLE HYDE OF ROYAL FLASH MUSIC OUTTA GERMANY, MR. PORTER, DJ COMPLEXX, DJ FABB, AND OF COURSE STONEY BLENDZ. IT WAS RELEASED IN MARCH 2008, FOLLOWING A SOLO ALBUM CALLED SIN-CITY THAT DROPPED IN MARCH 2008, BOTH ARE AVALIBLE ON DATPIFF.COM FOR FREE DOWNLOAD, IN OCTOBER OF 2008 B.I.G S.I.N RELEASED 2 MIXTAPES ON THE SAME DAY ‘THE UNDERDOG MIXTAPE’ WHICH HAD 743 DOWNLOADS, IT’S FIRST WEEK, AND ‘SANITY’ AND ALBUM EXCLUSIVLY PRODUCED BY JACKEL HYDE AND RELEASED IN GERMANY HAD 800 DOWNLOADS WITHIN IT’S FIRST WEEK, THEY CAN BE DOWNLOADED AT thatcrack.com, B.I.G S.I.N ALSO HAS A SONG IN THE UPCOMING STRAIGHT TO DVD RELEASE ‘I DO….I DID’ A SONG PRODUCED BY STONEY BLENDZ, THE MOVIE STARS AND IS PRODUCED BY CHERIE JOHNSON, THE MOVIE IS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE AUGUST 2009, YOU CAN ALSO CATCH B.I.G S.I.N ON A MIXTAPE BY DJ DAVITO CALLED ‘THE INTERVENTION’, IN LATE 2008 B.I.G S.I.N DROPPED ‘MIND OF A MAD MAN VOL. 1’, HOSTED BY SLIP-N-SLIDE DJ J-CHASE, IT WAS DOWNLOADED OVER 1200 TIMES IN 7 DAYS, THE BEST OF BIG S.I.N IS SCHEDULED WAS RELEASED FEBUARY 6TH 2009, FOLLOWED BY ‘MIND OF A MAD MAN VOL.2’ HOSTED BY SLIP-N-SLIDE DJ’S DJ BIRDSTICK AND DJ MVG, BIG S.I.N’S DEBUT ALBUM ‘MAD MAN MUSIC’ IS SET TO DROP SUMMER 2009, IT FEATURES PRODUCTION FROM STONEY BLENDZ, JACKEL HYDE, DOMINGO & DJ BIRDSTICK, ‘THE DAVITO BRIGANTE CHRONICALS’ IS ALSO SET TO DROP SUMMER 2009, B.I.G S.I.N HAS BEEN PLAYED ON GERMAN AND AUSTRALIAN RADIO ALSO, GET USED TO HEARING DSE, 2000SHINE, NIGGAZ IS STARVING!!!!
FOR BUSINESS, CONTACT ME AT: [email protected]
Where can we hear your stuff?: http://www.myspace.com/carolinamadman
How did you get that name?: I STARTED OUT AS MR. SINISTER BACK IN THE 90’S, AND I FELT LIKE THAT NAME WAS DATED, SO I SHORTENED IT TO SIN, THEN I SAW A MILLION OTHER SIN’S SO I CHANGED IT TO BIG S.I.N, WHICH STANDS FOR SOUTHERN ILL NIGGA
What has been your biggest accomplishment?: SO FAR MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT HAS BEEN THAT I ALONG WITH MY PARTNER STONEY BLENDZ HAS A SONG IN A STRAIGHT TO DVD FILM, THE TITLE TRACK, WHICH WAS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY CHERIE JOHNSON, SHE ALSO STARS IN THE FILM, IT DROPS AUGUST 11TH, HERE IS THE TRAILOR AND BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE
What has been your most difficult challenge?: GETTING MY BRAND OF MUSIC OVER IN THIS FICKLE CLIMATE OF MUSIC, BUT PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO GET IT, I WILL KEEP POUNDING THE GROUND UNTIL I GET WHERE I WANNA GET, I LIKE A CHALLENGE, IT MAKES YOU STRONGER AND WISER OVER TIME.
What makes you different?: I AM MYSELF, AND I AM NOT AFRAID TO BE MYSELF, I DON’T PUT UP A FRONT OR FABRICATE MY PAST JUST TO SPARK INTREST, I SPEAK FROM MY HEART, AND GIVE YOU ME.
What projects are you working on?: CURRENTLY I AM WORKING ON ANOTHER SOLO ALBUM AND AN ALBUM WITH MY PARTNER, MY FIRST SOLO ALBUM IS SET TO DROP NEXT MONTH DIGITALLY ON I-TUNES, RHAPSODY, AMAZON ETC, I WILL ALSO BE FEATURED ON A PROJECT CALLED THE CHRONICALS OF DAVITO BRIGANTE, WHICH IS DROPPING IN SEPTEMBER, IT FEATURES ARTIST LIKE RAKKA IRIS SCIENCE FROM DIALATED PEOPLES, JAZ-O, GRAND DADDY IU AND OTHERS
Where are you from originally? : I AM ORGINALLY FROM NC, I WAS BORN IN DURHAM NC, I HAVE LIVED IN MABELTON GA, RICHMOND VA AND ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY, SO I HAVE MET PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, AND IT GAVE ME A GOOD JUDGE OF CHARACTER
How Long have you been making music? : I BEEN DOING IT SINCE 1989, BUT I DID NOT TAKE IS SERIOUS UNTIL 2002, THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I EVER RECORDED IN A STUDIO, IT IS ALSO WHEN I LEARNED HOW TO FORMAT A SONG, SO ALL THE YEARS BEFORE WAS JUST PREPERATION, I GOT THE CHANCE TO PERFORM AT THE APOLLO IN 1996, THAT WAS A COOL EXPERIENCE.
What artists inspire you? : REAL ARTIST, GETO BOYS, JAY-Z, OUTKAST, BUSTA RHYMES, EMINEM, BIG DADDY KANE, RED AND METH, SLAUGHTERHOUSE, AND ARTIST LIKE THE LATE GREAT MICHAEL JACKSON, MARVIN GAYE, PEOPLE THAT COME FROM THE SOUL AND HAVE PASSION
How would you define your style of music? : DIFFERENT AND ORIGINAL, SMASH MOUTH MUSIC
What teams are you affiliated with? : NONE, I RUN WITH MY PARTNER AND OUR LABEL IS CALLED DEEN SMIFF ENT, IT IS ALOT EASIER THAT WAY
Who are some artists that you have worked with? : TRE-DOT, SHELLY B, NESH BO, CHERIE JOHNSON THE ACTRESS, P-BATTERS, RAKKA IRIS SCIENCE, BUTTA VERSES, NUTRAGEOUS AND ALOT OF OTHER ARTIST
Who would you like to collab with? : THATS A LONG LIST, JADA, GETO BOYS, NAS…..I COULD GO ON ALL NIGHT
Where do you see the future of music? : DIGITAL, I THINK THE INTERNET WILL HAVE AN EVEN LARGER IMPACT ON THE INDUSTRY OF MUSIC
Where do you see yourself in 1 year? : HOPEFULLY ON BET OR JUST VISIBLE TO A LARGER AUDIENCE, BUT I KNOW I WILL BE DOING MUSIC FOR CERTAIN
Describe yourself in one word. : UNIQUE
Any shout outs? : STONEY BLENDZ, GATE CITY, NC, JACKEL HYDE, ROYALTY MAGAZINE, TAZZY DAT MC, TRE-DOT, CHERIE JOHNSON, NESH BO, CARLITO, BIG LOS, L’SAY IN IRAQ, AND EVERYBODY I FORGOT TO MENTION