TAG: Lil’ Kim

Jul09

SPEECH DEBELLE: Favorite All-Time Lady MCs

Speech Debelle is the first female British MC we’ve heard in a long while whose sound isn’t defined by her nationality. We asked Debelle to list her all-time fave female MCs. And as you can see, this list clearly helped her define her own style.

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Jan21

B.I.G. Problem

In light of the succes of the Notorious soundtrack and movie, a question has reappeared in my mind. Rap in the 90’s was obviously at its peak. Things were great. Creativity was at a maximum and everybody was making money. New York and Cali were on top of the world and everything was great. But the killing of both of the game’s frontrunners changed everything for the worse.

Since the deaths of BIG and Pac, both of their former labels have basically gone bellyup. Their crews are non-existant. WTF happened to Lil’ Cease and Lil’ Kim? WTF happened to the Outlawz and all them? In recent interviews, Diddy admitted that since BIG’s death, he hasn’t looked at music the same. He said …

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Feb18

AMANDA BLANK: Extended Q&A

This time around, we had Amanda fill in more than just a blank (By Brandon Perkins) 

URB: What could possibly be going on at six o’clock in the evening?
Amanda Blank: I’m trying to see if I can apply fake eyelashes with my ten inch nails.

Someone’s going to lose an eye, huh?
Yes. I really would love to lose an eye, I really need to stop. I have like one eyelash that’s falling off.

You’d need a pirate eye patch or something.
I’ve been wearing like masquerade masks, lately. It looks bad, I’m a fuckin’ mess.

So what’s with the masquerade mask? Are you getting ready for Mardi Gras with MF Doom?
You know what? I had the idea right before Halloween. We did all these festival shows, and I got all excited to get dressed up, and get costumey, and I found all these really cool masquerade masks, and since then, I’ve been really into wearing them onstage.  It was really random how I decided to do it.

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