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Monday, April 14, 2008
“Miss Rap Supreme” Includes Atlantans
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The search for female rappers moves from the charts — where there are only two (Missy Elliott, Lil Mama) in Billboard’s Top 25 — to the TV at 10 p.m. tonight, where VH1 will debut “ego trip’s Miss Rap Supreme”.
The eight-episode series finds Michael “MC Serch” Berrin (of short-lived, early ’90s hip-hop group 3rd Bass) and pioneering rhymer Yolanda “Yo-Yo” Whitaker choosing from 10 rappers to earn the title — and $100,000. Among the 10 is Atlantan Ms. Cherry, and fellow local artist Khia (who claims her native Florida in the show).
Yes, that is the same Khia who had a club hit with “My Neck, My Back”, and sold hundreds of thousands of copies of her album with that single, “Thug Misses”. (Hear the clean version of her new single “Be Your Lady” HERE ).
It’s an odd inclusion among the other relative unknowns. And Serch points that out in the beginning, asking her what it’s like to go from “800,000 albums sold to almost obscurity, now to this show?”
“I like her, but is she more than a one-hit wonder?” Yo-Yo asks.
“I really thought she was a judge,” adds one of Khia’s competitors.
Oh she’s far more than that. As the more accomplished among them, Khia already believes — and acts — like the crown is hers; and that makes for an interesting dynamic in Los Angeles’s Fembassy Hotel Suites, where they’re all staying.
In other words, as the announcer says in the intro, “The claws will come out.”
Ever wonder why there are so few female hip-hop artists? Jason Geter of Atlanta’s Grand Hustle record label said recently that women are part of the problem — “they’ll buy a guy’s music and won’t buy a woman’s…And they’re harder on women, sometimes, than dudes are.” That’s a point also expressed in this show, before the first challenge — where the 10 rap for women in a beauty salon, a sorority house, and then a group of nuns.
Do you agree with Geter’s point? And what about hip-hop today — is it in need of more female voices, in your opinion?
