Sha-Key (Hanifah Walidah) is a native of New York. In the year of 1993, Sha’Key founded the first online hip-hop magazine called Guillotine. In 1994, Sa’Key released her debut album A Headnadda’s Journey To Adidi-Skizm on the Imago label. The album was critically acclaimed because of the raunchiness in her vocals, her original delivery, and her politically conscience perspective on the world. A second album called Adidi The Unrocked Story followed in 2004. She later dropped the name Sha-Key in favor of Hanifah Walidah in the mid-2000’s. Sha’Key started writing and performing with The Brooklyn Funk Essentials as well. Hanifah Walidah is also the curator of the blog Rule 4081 that is designed to help independent artists navigate their careers inside the music industry.
As Hanifah Walidah became a curator, she also became an educator, public speaker, advocate, writer, and activist in her community. She has been involved in many community activities and has helped many nonprofit organizations in their business operations. Sha’Key has spoken out about LGBT rights in many of her speeches. Sha’Key promotes LGBT rights, advocacy, awareness about sexuality. She is known in the NYC underground scene as an activist and artist.
[Sha'Key still does musical poetry. Sha’Key now goes by the name Hanifah Walidah.]
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