Bow to the Sovereign Lady
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Can’t get the hooky, sing-song chorus from Lady Sovereign’s most recent single "Love Me or Hate Me" outta my head. Aggro. Somehow self-deprecating and unapologetically proud at the same time. With a funky backbeat like the immortal James Brown production of Lyn Collins’ “Think.” Dangerously catchy.By now, Lady Sovereign’s origins are common knowledge: British, white, working-class female rapper/MC in her late teens – real name, Louise Harman. Brought up amid the soul-crushing grime of a council estate (the U.K. equivalent of America’s low-income urban housing projects) on the periphery of London. Petite, but tough-talking and cheerfully profane. Records for the legendary U.S. hip-hop label Def Jam. Her cred is in order. But I’m a little tired of all the crap about her being England’s distaff answer to Eminem.
Loving it: Lady Sovereign's Public Warning album.I have it on good authority that Lady Sovereign is the illegitimate daughter of The Streets’ Mike Skinner and Scary Spice, who gave her up for adoption. She was taken in by a poor family of Jamaican immigrants that could barely make ends meet. Raised on dance-hall reggae, Wu-Tang Clan, and old Clash records. At least, that’s what I'd like to think.It would be so outrageous to see her team up with hard-rockin’ Bay Area homegrrls the Donnas -- Sovereign spitting verbal fire over the bridge and strutting the stage while the band blows down the walls. Maybe, someday.
Loving it: Lady Sovereign's Public Warning album.I have it on good authority that Lady Sovereign is the illegitimate daughter of The Streets’ Mike Skinner and Scary Spice, who gave her up for adoption. She was taken in by a poor family of Jamaican immigrants that could barely make ends meet. Raised on dance-hall reggae, Wu-Tang Clan, and old Clash records. At least, that’s what I'd like to think.It would be so outrageous to see her team up with hard-rockin’ Bay Area homegrrls the Donnas -- Sovereign spitting verbal fire over the bridge and strutting the stage while the band blows down the walls. Maybe, someday.
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