Note: This website is a Shyheim fan website. You have not been cheated or fooled. This is because Shyheim also runs this website. This website is to show some of Shyheim's earlier songs. His real and official myspace page is: www.myspace.com/shyheimthemanchild/...Biography: With rabble-rousing rapping and wrought-iron beats, Shyheim first burst into our consciousness in 1993. Turning the focus on himself and his gritty ghetto surroundings, this associate of the Wu-Tang swaggered and bounced, brilliantly representing his mandate -- "to rap out the realness in the street." Presenting vivid, high-resolution images from his Staten Island hometown, the five-foot shortie stirred a big buzz. He gained fans and won accolades for his inspired Virgin Records debut, "AKA The Rugged Child," which included smash singles like "On And On" which rose to No. 7 on the Billboard Hip Hop Album chart. According to Shyheim, "A lot of kids my age are just about buying a gun, cursin', and getting they blast on. What I'm saying is that we gotta get up off that or we ain't gonna last too long." Besides developing a rep as a gifted MC - he has also contributed to recordings by Vicious, Jamal, Big Daddy Kane and Ruffa - Shyheim is cultivating an acting career. A cameo role in TLC's award-winning "Waterfalls" video last year led to a major role in "Original Gangstas," an action-packed urban drama which reunites 'Blaxploitation' stars Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Ron O'Neil, Richard Roundtree and Isabel Sanford. Shyheim makes his debut film performance as Dink, a clever teenage hustler who sells information to the highest bidder. This fall he will also appear in the Penny Marshall directed Disney film, "The Preacher's Wife," starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington. Shyheim says, "They're true superstars. I'm excited about working with them because I grew up watching both of them." But despite his blossoming film career, Shyheim's first commitment is to elevate himself as a hip hop artist. Rap first engaged Shyheim eight years ago. In the dark-and-scary landscapes of the Stapleton Housing Projects, he became enamored with L.L. Cool J., Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane and Rakim. As drug deals went down and brothers blasted off like the space shuttle, he rehearsed his flow to recorded raps. Within months he was writing verses of his own. "I kept that quiet for a while," he remembers. "Then, when I was finally satisfied with my skills, I decided to come out of the closet." Shyheim says everything he writes involves his life or the life of someone he knows. Usually he creates at night, while watching old movies or just coolin'. After going public with his talent, the MC battled anybody, anywhere, anytime. He also performed in talent shows and on the block. That's where he met RNS, his first producer. The pair started collaborating in 1991, working on what would become "AKA The Rugged Child", which was released in 1994. Shyheim went on to releasing his second album in 1996, labeled "The Lost Generation". The release of "Manchild" followed in 1999, although Shyheim was having financial problems at the time with Virgin Records, the record label he was on at the time. After dropping three consecutive successful albums, many though the Staten Island native could do no wrong. That was until Shyheim was caught up in a life of crime, and was sentenced to prison after being charged with armed robbery, along with violating his probation. Due to this, the album "Manchild" was pulled off the shelfs, and was released in the United Kingdom a year later. In 2004, Shyheim was released from prison and went on to release his most personal album "The Greatest Story Never Told", off his new record label, Bottom Up Records. Shyheim is now working on his fifth album in 2007.
