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Shade Sheist is a man who really needs no introduction! The twenty-something year-old rapper from Inglewood, California has already established himself as a true artist in the world of hip-hop, and has only just released his second album. Not to mention his first commercially released single "Where I Wanna Be" shot straight to the top of the Billboard charts in 2001. One would think that an artist with achievements of this magnitude would be satisfied, but not Shade Sheist. "I haven't done everything I want to do yet," he says. "So I think its safe to say that yall haven't seen anything yet!" From his flow to the beats that he rhymes over, everything about rapper Shade Sheist screams "West Coast" in no uncertain terms. Sheist has, on occasion, worked with some East Coast rappers -- including Fabolous, Ja Rule and Naughty by Nature member Kay Gee -- but even so, Sheist is very much a product of the Southern California rap scene. Heavily influe...