Solja Life Records Inc. is an independent record label that was
created in January of 2001 in Bridgehampton, New York. The Company is
currently operating out of Brooklyn, New York. It was created by
Keton "Solji" Cole CEO and U.S Marine for over eleven years. He is
also a student of New York University's Entertainment and Media
Management Program. Solji spent several years doing extensive market
research, networking, testing potential target markets, building a
catalog of beats and setting up the infrastructure for the Company.
He then signed the first group to the label in 2005, Gangsta Colony.
They later became known as Kolony.

Kolony is a group of hip-hop artist living in Jamaica. They have
their own uniquely refreshing sound. This sound comes from their
mixture of Jamaican dancehall with traditional U.S. hip-hop. This new
sound gave birth to a new sub-genre called dancehall/hip-hop, which
represents both cultures from which this new sound came. The Company
released its first official mix cd from the group, called “100%
Jamaican the Mixtape”, in 2007. The mix cd is still available online
at Itunes, Rhapsody, Amazon Mp3, Napster and CDBaby among several
other digital distributors.

In early 2008 Solji started attending a few song writers’
pitch-a-thons. Where he would pitch the Company's songs to several
industry executives, in an effort to be considered for future
projects. In August of 2008 two (2) of the Company's songs, "Burning
Bridges" and "Love Song", were picked by a representative from MTV
Networks. Solja Life Records was contacted about a month later by MTV
Networks, who wanted to license the songs that they had heard at the
pitch-a-thon. However after hearing more tracks from SLR’s catalog
they finally decided to license nine (9) songs and thirty one (31)
instrumental tracks for their programming and video games.

Solja Life Records, Inc will be releasing Sly Rankin’s debut album,
titled “Jamaican Pride” in the fall of 2009.  Jamaican Pride will
feature six (6) of the songs licensed by MTV Networks.  Some of which
can be heard at SoljaLife.info.  Sly Rankin is one of the pioneers of
this new genre coming out Jamaica.  Dancehall/hip-hop, look and listen
out for this new sensation.