the mixtape show

Okay, I realize that this album came out a long time ago. But I just had to weigh in on the cover. Has anyone taken a look at the Lil Kim album cover? Forreal. Take a fucking look. Two things come to my mind when I look at this picture. First, I wonder if maybe Lil Kim isn’t actually a seven year old Korean girl. Second, I realize that she looks exactly like JonBenet Ramsey. To illustrate this I have provided a graphic created by an actual seven year old Korean girl. I’m just saying, though.

Okay, another review of some shit that probably about 0.2% of you rap nerds are actually up on – Lady Sovereign, with Vertically Challenged. So I’ve been hearing Lady Sov’s (if you can’t spell “sovereign” it’s perfectly acceptable to call her that) name thrown around for a minute now. I guess she was on that Run the Road compilation that Chester Copperpot was making fun of and that I’ve still never heard. Anyway she’s part of this “grime” shit that all those funny-talking British kids are listening to nowadays. I’m into the shit so once I got the CD, I actually bothered to listen to it, unlike all those fucking terrible demos I seem to get nowadays. Moving on. Review is after the jump.

The next hip-ho

No, I hadn't heard about this shit until it showed up on my doorstep. I've got friends who are all about that Purple City shit, and I've heard some of their work in the mixtape circuit, so I figured I'd give it a listen. So for those of you who don't know about Purple City, I'd suggest you go read up or something, and then come back. Or if you couldn't care less about their history it's all good. I read on some site forever ago that they were working on some "international concept album" called Paris to Purple City, and I guess this is the first single off of that. Anyway, here we go. Rap is All Around the World: This title concerns me. This is the kind of track title that all those "true b-boy/b-girl" types would go apeshit over. You know the type - the backpackers in the back of the Starbucks that only recently stopped listening to Dashboard Confessional in favor of Common because somebody clued them into the fact that rap is inherently superior to emo. I saw some girl today wearing a "My Heart Belongs to Hip-Hop" shirt, and she was so obviously non-hip-hop that I had to physically restrain myself from punching her fucking face in.