Night Shield's
The Total Package
WINS Best Hip Hop Recording
@ 9th Annual NAMA!!

The 9th Annual Native American Music Awards were held last Saturday at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in Niagara, NY where Night Shield & Maniac: The Siouxpernatural amazed the crowd with an electrifying performance that featured grass dancers & fancy shawl dancers while Shock B of Culture Shock Camp rocked the wheels of steel!! The performance was one of the highlights of what was being called the best NAMA yet!! Pictures have been added to Night Shield's MySpace Page and can view them at: www.MySpace.com/NightShizzle

Later that night Night Shield was announced the winner of the Best Hip Hop/Rap Recording for his sophmore LP "The Total Package". "The Total Package" was released in 2005 to critical acclaim from across the nation and spawned the hit singles "Anything You Want" & "Roses". Night Shield latest album, "Loved & Hated" will be in stores on October 16th. Press Kits are now available and any press interested in getting one please contact: info@nightshield.net

Night Shield & Maniac: The Siouxpernatural would like to thank everyone made this year's show off hook and send a special out to the following people: Donald Kelly & Ellen Bello, Rosemary Fernandez, Uncle Joe, Dawn Karima, Sarah Weston, Mosses Brings Plenty, Jennifer Kriesberg, Native Era, Rolling Fox, JSK, Adian Brown, Corn Bred, Exit Wound, Jan Michael Looking Wolf, James Bordeaux Jr, Leon Thompson, John Frazier & Big B & The Boys from Washington State!

South Dakota's Most Prolific Hip Hop Artist Is Back! Night Shield returns to CD shelves this October with his latest album, "Loved & Hated". The Sioux Falls MC's 3rd solo LP features 15 brand new tracks and promises to be Night Shield's best album to date! Night Shield will be performing the album’s first single, Broken Dreams, at this years Native American Music Awards on October 6th in New York where he has also been nominated in 2 categories this year, Best Male Artist & Best Hip Hop Recording for his last album, "The Total Package", released in December of 2005. The song Broken Dreams has already garnered plenty of radio play across South Dakota and also features the vocals of another South Dakota legend, Jackie Bird. Another single off the new project, “Patron”, looks to get the club shaking and ladies on the dance floor while the 3rd installment of the Cruelty series brings together all of South Dakota’s major Hip Hop artists for the first time. “Loved & Hated” features more adult subject matter than previous releases but fans of Night Shield’s more mainstream sound shouldn’t worry, songs like Drunken Madness, What Can I Say & Do Something remind you why he is one of the most mainstream Native Hip Hop acts. This album does reflect a lot of growth in Night Shield as an artist while keeping true to his roots at the same time. Mr. D-Sane handles the majority of the production on “Loved & Hated” with Maniac: The Siouxpernatural, Big Ice & Mobius Suntzu also contributing tracks.

1. Loved & Hated
2. South Dak
3. The Bitch In You featuring F. Dux & V The Noble 1
4. Drunken Madness
5. Do Something featuring Overflow & Switch
6. What Can I Say featuring Arjay
7. Patron featuring Tyshawn
8. The Kingz featuring Maniac: The Siouxpernatural
9. What This Game's Been Missin'
10. Boom featuring Overflow & Maniac: The Siouxpernatural
11. Lil Shorty featuring Jay Nez
12. Broken Dreams featuring Jackie Bird
13. That Road featuring Buggin Malone & Amanda Dunn
14. Rollin' featuring Maniac: The Siouxpernatural & F. Dux
15. The 605 (Cruelty III) featuring Maniac: The Siouxpernatural, Dub Downs, V The Noble 1, Soulcrate Music, Adapt, Truth, Switch, Native Era, K.O.D. & Trey Lane