Miss Mama Queen!!! Miss Miss…Miss Mama Queen! Aka LaSheka Benford. Up and Coming Female Rapper (Femcee) hailing from the small town of Murfreesboro (MBT), Tennessee. Murfreesboro is 30 miles outside of the States Capital Nashville (Music City), home of mainstream Hip Hop Artist Young Buck and rising star StarLito (AllStar). Miss Mama Queen (Queen for Short) started writing at the age of 13, and recorded her first track at the age of 15. The track was Produced by fellow MBT rap artist Roach Killa, and featured appearances from V.O. (Queen’s Brother) and Pie (Queen’s Cousin). At the age of 17, then known as Lil’ Mama (childhood nickname), she signed up for Patterson Teen Idol. Teen Idol was a local contest held similar to American Idol. Over a month’s time period, and many eliminations and rounds, Queen (Lil’Mama) took home the title as the First winner of Patterson Teen Idol. The next year was spent with heavy promotion, party performances, and Talent showcases working alongside Block2Block (MBT Record Label), Alley Boys, Hillside, Street Worxx, and many others.

     In 2007, Queen enrolled in College to Study Business and Business Administration. She then went on to create Street Queenz Entertainment, her independent Label, Miss Mama Queen the Artist (Sheka the CEO). In 2008, Miss Mama Queen was introduced to Myxer ( a Free Ringtone Website). Queen stated, “Someone had texted me and was like, ’yo how do I download your ringtones?’ I’m like I don’t know. I didn’t know that you could do ringtones unless you was a major artist. So I go check out the site, and I see where you can make an artist page and what not. So I set up the page, and it was just like BAM! In one week I had over 5,000 downloads.” From original songs such as “Go Hard”, to that well received Hurricane Chris Remix (QueenMixx), “Playa Rock”, Queen became an “Household” Ringtone! “I was just amazed by the fact that someone in Britain, Canada, California, hell even Japan had me as a ringtone, I just kept uploading new music every day, every week. Next thing I know, im on the Front Page of the Myxer Website. It was just crazy.” As an Independent Artist, Queen is nearing her Million Downloads mark.

       Queen has became known for her online Grind, not to undermine her Street Smarts. Facebook, Reverbnation, Twitter, BlogTalk, TweetMySong, Miss Mama Queen is everywhere. Her determination, faith, and hard work is keen to the eye. Be confused about a lot but never second guess the fact that you are watching, A Rising Star.