Lil Mama

Lil’ Mama Wants Equal Opportunity for Female Rappers!

She obviously has a ton of style and spunk, but does Lil Mama have the poetic acumen to make her a hip-hop mainstay? Songs like “G-Slide,” “Shawty Get Loose” and “Lip Gloss” have solidified her as a young, up-and-coming rap star. Mama says that if you listen to the meat of her recently released debut, VYP: Voice of the Young People, there’s no missing her distinguished way with words.

“One of the biggest misconceptions about me would have to be my skills,” she told us. “They try to compare me to other new female artists who may have been out in the past, who may have got a shot then flopped. Then they be like, ‘She’s gonna do the same thing. She’s not a real rapper. She can’t keep up with this person or that person.’ But if you put me in the ring with a lot of the top dudes in the spot right now, I’ll slaughter them.

“I feel the need to put lyrical content in my songs,” she added. “That’s what I do. I’m an artist. I don’t sit in the studio and dance around. I love to dance. I wish I could go in a room and let somebody write my songs, and I come back and read it and record it. Artists that are out right now, that’s what they are doing. They come back in and say, ‘Oh, that’s it? What’s the melody? That’s how I sing it?’ Then they go in the booth and lay it down and go back to their own pretty life. Me, I’m different. When I write, my soul is into it. I need clarity. When I write, I’m not gonna write, ‘Nick nack, patty wack/ Give a dog a bone.’ ”

In Mama’s opinion, there is a double standard when it comes to male and female rappers.

“For one, I’m a female,” she said about why she doesn’t get the accolades she thinks she deserves. “For two, they hear a song like ‘Lip Gloss.’ They feel, ‘It’s easy; it’s this, that.’ But if a man was to put out the same type of song — different concept, same type of flow on the hook, it’s: ‘Hot. He’s crazy!’ When it’s a female, never. Then you have people who want the chance to do what I’m doing and instead of giving it to me, they’d rather hate.”

The young’in is spittin’ insightfully on her next single “L.I.F.E.” Life as a shorty shouldn’t be so rough.

“Well, I have a record on my album called ‘L.I.F.E.,’ ” she said. “I know people say, ‘She always mentions that song,’ but ‘L.I.F.E.’ is one of the strongest records on my album. I talk about the orphanage, teenage pregnancies. It’s three verses, and I give you a different story on each verse. Where I come from, my grandmother is a foster parent. I have a lot of cousins who got pregnant at an early age. My father and other men in my family had to deal with not having fresh clothes [growing up]. Going into free lunch and having to eat really quickly then having to leave. You had people who were very offended by their situation. I write about that. This record, ‘L.I.F.E.,’ it’s very touching. [Some of my family] feel like I’m directing [the lyrics] towards them, but it’s a very broad song. It’s a million young girls who go through that and millions of young guys who go through that.”

She also has a concept that will remind you of Daryl Hannah in “Splash.” Well, maybe Ariel.

“I have a record called ‘Swim’ about a guy who can’t keep up with me,” she continued. “I’m in a different lane. I’m a mermaid, I’m in the ocean and swimming, and he walks on his two feet. It’s like the cartoon ‘The Little Mermaid.’ Except, it’s coming from my point of view. In the cartoon, she wants to be where he is. In this song, he wants to be where she is. He can’t live that life.”
source: mtv

By Dj SchizophreNik, Musicheatxl.com