Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Tearin' the roof off this mother like Parliament: Present top 5 female rappers

At the age of 14, I fell in love with rap. I was raised in mostly white areas and wasn't exposed to it at a young age. When I moved to Georgia at the time So So Def was King, everyday outings and social activities where molded around this drum and base from Dj Kizzy Rock, Kilo, ABC, and 8ball and MJG and my fascination of getting into 559. When I had this discussion with Yaiesha and Carly about the best female MC's it came from the most insane topic, a Nikki Minaj video on BET. Not only did I almost spit up my strawberry lemonade by the ridiculous video, but more from the fact that this video is # 2 on the BET countdown. Next at number one was Drake with It's over, something I will address later on in a post. I believed when I saw this video that this must be a joke, I looked at Yai and said...is their a beat on this song? Yaiesha responded by telling me that her stylist had a field day like freaknik. Oh I see.. It just make no sense. Hummm. Getting back to my point or rather my question, What happened to awsome female rappers? Lets start with the top five, with five being Da Brat.
I can't speak on her present work or lack their of, I'm speaking about the impact of this album. Lets just call a spade a spade, Jermaine Dupree was on fire around this time and he could do no wrong production wise. What? You wanna do a rap album?? Oh, with a female MC? Oh and put Parliament Funkadelic on your album? It's a page right out of doggystyle but way more silky. Rap around this time was just fun and made you feel good and groundbreaking, not to mention Da Brat was the first female rapper to go platinum EVER!!! Lyrically Da Brat had a type of swagger these fake female MC's only wish they had. Let's just call it silky

Twice Removed: Krog street addition

This will be the second time I have been held hostage, and summoned to sit in traffic and stuck looking at my gate. You see, Krog street is my entrance and my exit into most of my travels and on Sunday it happened again. The first twice removed situation was when it rained for 7 days and 7 nights. Everything was flooded, including the Krog street bridge. As beautiful as the picture is in this post, it was hell for me and the whole community. The second twice removed was on Sunday, when they were filming a movie. My neighbor Chris said it was for Big Momma House # 17, or something. On this day everything shut down, with minimal APD assistance. It's not the fact the tunnel was closed, but how it is now a beacon of hipster culture. Not a day goes by that I don't see someone having a tacky photo shoot in the tunnel for bad clothing and weave shoots. AHHHHHH!!!! When will it stop, I really want my tunnel back.