Big Mama

I was thinking at the weekend and not fo the first time that very little rap and hip hop has been thown out across the kitchen table in the two and a half years I have been writing this drivel and coming across as a "typical scot". Which is quite strange as I like my hip hip, granted not a great deal from the late nineties onwards but the earlier stuff, the less gansta flows.

So to start to redress the balance a little, here is my favourite female MC and she is rather vexed with a few people. Not the sort of lady you would take home a burst pay packet to I suspect.

Roxanne Shante - Big Mama

Go On Girl

How about a bit of hip-hop from one of the original female MCs, Roxanne Shante. Shante appeared on the scene at the age of 14 with the track Roxanne's Revenge, a retort to UTFO's track Roxanne, Roxanne, which started a beef with the group who released a record with Adelaida Martinez assuming the role of the Real Roxanne which brought the group and Shante to public attention and made her a hip hop face.

She has a very distinctive vocal and was renowned for her free styling. She released 2 albums Bad Sister and The Bitch Is Back. The track posted, Go On Girl was a single in 1988 and which reached the dizzy heights of number 55 in the UK.

Roxanne Shante - Go On Girl