KOCH Records is set to release Money's My Motivation, the debut album from Oakland rapper Kafani on August 28th, 2007.

The first single titled "Fast (Like a Nascar)" features Keak Da Sneak, and is already up to 450 spins and a club hit in the Bay area. The video for the single has already been added to MTVJams. ,

Kafani was looking for a way to break through on a major level. The Oakland rapper thought he was onto something when realized he had some choice slang at his disposal. ""Fassst' was slang in the streets, but everybody didn't know about it," he says. "But it was the slang in East Oakland. My and my partners were always saying it, so I was like, "I'm going to do a song about that.'" The resulting song, and its alternate version featuring hyphy pioneer Keak Da Sneak, made Kafani the hottest rapper in the Bay Area. "When I made it," he says, "I knew it was the one because if the streets already have a buzz on something and you put it to the masses, the masses follow the streets, so you're good."

Kafani is one half of the Oakland-based rap group Babyface Assassins, and has planted himself in California's rap scene on his own, starting from the ground up. Growing up in East Oakland, Kafani and his partner Kashmere built a thirteen-year long friendship that eventually developed into the business relationship they have now.

This duo has collaborated with some of California's foremost musical including Too $hort, Yukmouth, Choppa, Freeway, and Keak Da Sneak. Kafani stats, "Everyday is a struggle, but we strive to grow. Each day we get more fans because we work hard, we keep on grindin'." With a recent radio campaign in the southwest United States, Kafani is developing a large and faithful fan base.

"At the end of the day, I've always been a hustler," he explains. "We're working, hustling, trying to get money and get what we want to get. I'm trying to provide for my family and my friends. The way to do that is money and money is power."

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