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Emcee N.I.C.E. on June 3, 2020
Background information
Birth name	Aulsondro Hamilton
Also known as	Novelist
Genres	Christian hip hop Hip hop West Coast hip hop jazz rap conscious rap
Occupations	rapper songwriter actor curator producer
Instruments	Vocals, drum machine, turntables
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Gypsy City Music
Associated acts	Darius McCrary, Stacey Dash, Aaron Hall, K-Ci Hailey, Dennis Bettis, D.B.I., KansasCali, The Rocturnals, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Doctor Fink, Canton Jones, Fred Hammond
Awards: Full list

Aulsondro "Novelist" Hamilton, better known by his stage name Emcee N.I.C.E., is an American Christian hip hop recording artist, rapper, singer, songwriter, record and film producer, record executive, actor, inventor, entrepreneur and former lead vocalist/rapper of the duo KansasCali. He is the co-creator of the animated music series Da Jammies, The co-founder of The Stellar Award winning radio station God’s House of Hip Hop Radio powered by Dash Radio, A Best Selling Author for his book “Music Release University”. He is president of two non-profit organizations, The iTL Foundation (Information, Technology & Literacy) of Los Angeles and Urbanomics 101, the Managing Editor for RYZE Magazine, a christian hip hop lifestyle magazine and an American Inventor. He is the co-producer of 2 Pac's Thugz Mansion acoustic, the first single released from the certified triple platinum album Better Dayz and the Nas acoustic Thugz Mansion (N.Y.), off of the certified platinum album God's Son

Emcee N.I.C.E.’s debut recording as a Christian Hip Hop Recording artist came when the album Praise was released in 2017 and became his first solo project to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums and “Billboard Gospel Album Sales” the album would yield Five No. 1 hit records on the Billboard charts in "I Got Angels" claiming two positions along with "Glory to God" (ft. Fred Hammond) & Nielsen BDS including a No. 1 gospel album in Praise.

Emcee N.I.C.E. received nominations for Rap Hip-Hop Gospel CD of the Year and Gospel Hip Hop Radio Station of Year at the 34th Annual Stellar Awards, the last of which he won. He is also a 12 time "The Gospel Spin Awards" winner, in the categories of "Internet Radio Personality of the Year," 2 time "Best Radio Show 2 or More – (God's Calamari w/ Emcee N.I.C.E. & The God Squad)," 2 time "Voice of the Year, Station Manager/Program Director of the Year" are the notables, he received a total of 17 Nominations in Gospel radio from the Gospel Spin Award and in 2021 Emcee N.I.C.E. was honored as "Radio Man of the Year."

Emcee N.I.C.E. also known as Novelist with the duo KansasCali, has been on six motion picture soundtracks, Oscar Award Winning film Crash song "If I...", Mr. & Mrs. Smith (International Soundtrack) song "If I Never See You Again", Haven Original Soundtrack song "Uuuh", Kickin' It Old Skool song "The Life", Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos song "U Gotta Fight!"

History

In 2015, under his real name Aulsondro Hamilton, he voiced the character "Novelist" in a 3D animated music series entitled Da Jammies.

As a writer and performer A Lighter Shade of Brown

1994 to 1999

Albums

As a member and lead vocalist/rapper of KansasCali

2002 to 2006

Charts (2002–2008)

As Emcee N.I.C.E. (Novelist Is Constantly Evolving)

2012

2013

2015

Tonight feat. Suhana Machete peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot Single Sales Chart in 2014 (Billboard Albums)

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2020-EP's

"Tonight"

as a CHH Artist

Music Videos

A music video for "Thugz Mansion" was shot. The video was nominated at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video.

• other music videos includes:
• "If U Wanna Groove" with Lighter Shade of Brown
• "If I..." with KansasCali
• "The Life" with KansasCali
• "Life of The Party" with Stacey Dash & Blake Smith
• "I Got Angels"
• "This Is TBL" with Lamontt Blackshire & DaLomonze
• "Precious Stones" with Bryann Trejo

Motion Picture Soundtracks

As a member and lead vocalist/rapper of The Rocturnals

2008 (soundtrack)

2009 – 2011

Acting

Movies

Television

TV shows and special songs

Awards and achievements

Stellar Gospel Music Awards

The Spin Awards

The Gospel Hip Hop Awards

The complete list of winners can be found here https://www.thegospelhiphopawards.com/team-4

Kingdom Image Awards

Awards/Nominations

• 2019: Stellar Awards Nomination, Rap/Hip Hop CD of the Year – PRAISE
• 2019: Stellar Awards Nomination, Internet Station of the Year – GH3 Radio (God's House of Hip Hop) – Curated by Emcee N.I.C.E.
• 2019: Kingdom Image Awards Nomination, Producer of the Year –
• 2019: The Spin Awards Nominees

Books

• 50 Shades of L.O.V.E. – (Learning Our Various Emotions) (July 15, 2015)
• Music Release University - The Indies' Guide to Releasing Music! (August 19, 2022)

Note: (Music Release University - The Indies' Guide to Releasing Music! is an Amazon Books New Release Best Seller achieving No. 1 in the category of "Music Recording & Sound" and a Top 10 Best Seller in the category of "Music Business")