Al Kapone is one of the originators of the Memphis underground rap explosion and a pioneer of the Dirty South Crunk/Buck style of Hip-Hop popularized by Atlanta artists such as Lil Jon. His fully motivated attitude landed him a writing/producing job for John Singleton’s “Hustle and Flow”. The soundtrack for the critically acclaimed Paramount/MTV Films movie has cleared 500,000 copies. Kapone’s credits included writing/producing/performing “Whoop That Trick”, “It Ain’t Over (Hustle & Flow)”, and “Get Crunk, Get Buck”. “It Ain’t Over (Hustle & Flow Theme)” also won Kapone the 2006 Critic’s Choice Award. Building on the momentum of “Hustle & Flow”, Kapone co-wrote two Summer ’06 hit songs for ‘Lil Jon and E-40. “Snap Yo Fingers” was a huge summer hit for ‘Lil Jon. “U & Dat” the second single from E-40’s album Ghetto Report Card drove to the album GOLD. This continued success scored Kapone a deal with Virginia-based Red Light Management (Dave Matthews Band, O.A.R., Rodney Adkins, Underoath, The Almost, Robert Randolph, North Mississippi Allstars). From there Kapone secured legal rep Jennifer Justice (Jay-Z, Method Man, Lyfe) to help capitalize on his writing successes. Justice introduced Kapone to urban publishing legend Big Jon Platt (Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Usher, Pharell Williams, Snoop Dogg), Executive VP for EMI Music Publishing who signed Kapone to a publishing deal in November 2006. Moving forward, Kapone is focusing on writing for EMI artists and continues to develop new music and his live show with his live band Tha Untouchables. Recent recording projects have brought Kapone back to the roots of Memphis music. His vision includes a new sound that incorporates the full history of Memphis (Elvis, BB King, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, RL Burnside) with the Crunk energy of the Memphis rap scene (Three-6 Mafia, 8Ball & MJG, Yo Gotti, Project Pat). The new album incorporating this vision will be collaboration with Atlanta producer/mixer Billy Hume (Shop Boyz, Yin-Yang Twins, Ludacris, David Banner, Bonecrusher) due out in early 2008.