Bio
Tha Kingz (KingzOfCharlotte)
Ronald (Desert Eagle Traum) Murchison, born in Baltimore M.D. and Adriel
(A’cemetic) Lockhart, born in Charlotte N.C. started off in 1994 as
BlackFriday. Young and eager, we teamed up with Tony Twice in “94”
under twice productions. We put together three(3) albums for the streets
which sold more than Five thousand copies a piece. During the time of
selling all these records, we weren’t getting paid any money from album
sales, which then started to paint a picture. We stayed under Twice
Productions, doing multiple shows from “West Fest” to “Summer
Fest”. We opened for “Outkast” in 1997 at Club Tunnel, which gave us
a good name in the city for opening acts at the time. We then went on to
doing interviews with magazine companies, such as The Source for the
Unsigned Hype and promoting ourselves with Major Record Labels. By the
time of 1999, we had magazine interviews, uncountable shows, and 5 albums
recorded and done. We was then introduced to Darian (Diggie Die) Curry,
Owner of Liquor House Records, which was based in Charlotte NC at that
time. Diggie Die than started to shop our (BlackFriday) music along with
his artist. It was June of 1999 when Diggie ran into Sean (Puff) Combs,
who liked our music. Puff then charged Diggie a thousand dollars to
reserve a contract while Die and Twice worked out an agreement between the
20% management agreement that we (BlackFriday) agreed to in 1996 under
twice productions. Later that year, we got word that we was on the verge
of losing the deal due to negotiations produced by Tony Twice. By the
beginning of the year 2000, we (BlackFriday) was back the starting point.
Deal had gone sour due to bad management and us signing contracts that we
really should not of. We then was released from under Twice Production and
ended up signing another management deal with Liquor House Records later
that year. We went back to opening shows for Major Colleges throughout
North Carolina and openings for Major Acts as well. It was later that year
when the tragedy happened again, Liquor House Records was raided by the
police due to one of its members affiliation with a drug traffican ring.
The Label was then moved to Atlanta Georgia unannounced, which left us out
in the open with no contact numbers or addresses to contact anyone. Those
contracts stayed in effect until June 2006. Afterwards, we began our on
Indie Label called, Dundeal Ent, a production company, and a unit roster of
some of the best unsigned talent around. I call them the Trauma U.N.I.T.
Tha Kingz ultimately became a unstoppable rap duo in the Charlotte Metro
area. We are producers, Managers of young artist, label owners, and
songwriting and arranging. We have our own studio now as well called
Trauma UNIT Studios. We continue to hustle our music today. In 2007, We
dropped the hood single (Im So Gansta) which went on to move over 15,000
units between Charlotte NC and Baltimore MD, being that Desert Eagle Traum
was from Baltimore MD. We then released locally, Tha Alpha Album, A solo
album by Desert Eagle Traum in the summer of 2008 which sold almost 20,000
units underground. We are now currently working on production for other
albums, as well as promoting ourselves to the labels now. We got a feeling
that this is our year. Check us out at www.myspace.com/kingzofcharlotte
where we got over 1.5million spins in our first year of being on the
network. I will be contacting you, The A