Say what you will about EgoTrip/VH1’s Ms. Rap Supreme… Too much like a game show? Less Serch, Much More YoYo? Not REAL enough for ya?
Well guess what, bitches? Get on your Hip Hop herstory while you’re shutting the fuck up. EgoTrip™ is a brand decades-old in the grand tradition of that old boom-bap…all about the braggadocio with a healthy serving of tongue-in-cheek, double-entendre laden hilarity to cut the rawness of the uncut real.
As much as I love my QB family, Hip Hop was conceived, born AND raised in Pelan, b.k.a. the Boogie-Down Bronx. Some of the first B-Girls were from the BX, and definitely the original Femcees. Rece Steele is carrying on a tradition, literally, the daughter of a female MC.
As far as her cursing too much, that’s like ‘Nas to Nigga to Nigger’ – taking it back and embracing it beats letting it break your back and erasing ya.
Byata does HER thing, but there’s something to be said for not letting the Russian girl win just because she’s white.
And let’s keep it real, Rece Steele won with her skill with the mic steel. She didn’t have to kneel, or suck, to get a deal. She’s a big-body girl just like me. So that means a young Queen who saw her win on TV can follow her dream even though she’s a size 18. Nahmean?
p.s. If her A&R is on point we’ll get a Rece Steele/C-Rayz Walz collabo.
n.b. If you know anything about my decade-plus documenting women in Hip Hop culture, you know like I know Rece is no Jean Grae nor Invincible nor Mystic…but she was willing to expose herself to the joys of ‘celebreality’. It’s what she does with her newfound celebrity that will define her caliber as an MC.
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