Khia Religion

What religion is Khia?

Khia Shamone Chambers is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, record producer, and internet personality who is a Christian.

Khia was born on November 8, 1977, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Khia is best known for her sexually explicit 2002 breakout single “My Neck, My Back (Lick It),” which became one of the defining dirty-rap anthems of the early 2000s. The song peaked at No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, reached the top five in the United Kingdom, earned platinum certification in the United States, and helped her debut album, Thug Misses, achieve RIAA Gold certification.

Khia was raised in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia and later moved to Tampa, Florida, at age 11. Khia attended Dowdell Middle School and Hillsborough High School in Tampa but left school during her sophomore year after becoming pregnant. In 1991 she had her first child, a daughter named Khia Finch. In 1992, at age 15, she moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, when the father of her children was stationed at Fort Shafter Army Base. In Hawaii she had her second child, a son named Rashawn Finch. Before her music career began, she worked as a bartender at Club XS in Tampa.

Music career

Khia’s professional music career started in the early 2000s after years of writing and performing rap and gospel music. Her debut album, Thug Misses, was released in 2002 on Dirty Down/Artemis Records. The album peaked at number 33 on the Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for 25 weeks. Its lead single, “My Neck, My Back (Lick It),” became her most famous song; it reached number 12 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Tracks chart and number 42 on the Hot 100, and it also charted internationally in Canada and the UK. Her second album, Gangstress, followed in 2006, debuting at number 67 on the Billboard R&B chart. That same year she collaborated with Janet Jackson on “So Excited,” which reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her third album, Nasti Muzik, was released on July 22, 2008, featuring Gucci Mane on the promotional single “What They Do.” That same year she appeared on VH1’s Miss Rap Supreme but was eliminated for performing a pre-recorded song. Her fourth album, MotorMouf aka Khia Shamone, followed in 2012, and she went on to release Love Locs (2014), QueenDomCum (2016), and her greatest hits album TwerkAnomics (2018).

Khia founded her own record label, Thug Misses Entertainment, through which she produced most of her catalog. She has sold over one million records worldwide. In 2017, she launched the weekly online talk show and podcast The Queen’s Court, alongside T.S. Madison, followed by a solo web series, Gag Order. In addition to music, she has worked as an actress and composer, appearing in films such as Into the Blue (2005), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), and The Wrong Missy (2020).

Personal life

In May 2018, Khia married Adamu Owusu, a Ghanaian native and PhD graduate of the University of Baltimore, in a private ceremony in Mexico. In later years, Khia has also written and published books, including Love Yourself Hoe and Ignoring the Signs, both released in 2014. In the late 2010s, she transitioned heavily into digital media and internet culture, gaining a new wave of notoriety as an outspoken media personality and pop culture commentator on various independent web-based series.

In the mid-2020s, the term “Khia asylum” emerged as an internet meme on Stan Twitter, used to describe pop artists perceived to be experiencing a career decline.