V-Nasty Wants to Flip Her Rough Background into a Rap Career

“He got shot.” Blunt but with a quiver in her voice, V-Nasty recalls the day her best friend died in her arms. The grisly incident happened on Coolidge Avenue in Oakland, when the rapper bornVanessa Reece was 15 years old. An East Oakland native, Reece says the death of her friend was the most traumatic experience of her childhood. But pressed for details on the murder, she says she doesn’t want to comment, adding only that the incident threw her into a period where “there was no holding me down.”

3 months ago  2 notes

Kreayshawn In Bad Cat Mom Shocker!

After signing your record deal, you told us you were going to treat your cats to a fancy cat tower from Petco. Did they get one?
”I wanted to get one but they’re just weird! So no, I couldn’t pick one; so no, they don’t have one yet.”

4 months ago  1 note

Consciousness vs. Sex: Jean Grae and the Plight of the Underground Female Rapper

“The real reason why a rapper like Jean Grae isn’t as well known as a Nicki Minaj isn’t so much because she doesn’t openly use sex to sell. No, it’s because she makes songs like “Taco Day.” From a writing perspective, the track is as good as anything Eminem has been academically lauded for. But the lack of commercial success for “Taco Day”’ wasn’t because Grae didn’t slut around in front of the camera in a school girl’s outfit for a video. It didn’t crack the charts because it’s a song about an abused teen who shoots up her school, contains lines like “The principal called me in the office to talk about the dean’s list/ And then he backed me up into the door and made me touch his penis,” and is rapped over a thoroughly uncommercial beat produced by Mr. Len, who came to repute as part of underground rap torch-bearers Company Flow. Much of the perceived plight of female rappers is at heart the same underground versus overground argument that runs through all of hip-hop.”

8 months ago 

The Man Who Made Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"

10 months ago 

Musings on Kreayshawn



“She’s a mall queen but she’s rapping outside of the mall.”

11 months ago  2 notes

V-Nasty Wants to Flip Her Rough Background into a Rap Career
Kreayshawn In Bad Cat Mom Shocker!
Consciousness vs. Sex: Jean Grae and the Plight of the Underground Female Rapper
The Man Who Made Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"
Musings on Kreayshawn

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