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July 13 Lady Sovereign..At just nineteen, pint-sized Londoner Lady Sovereign has all the makings of the next hip-hop superstar..She sneaks nursery rhymes into haughty boast-raps and melds hyper, big-bottomed beats with dancehall, drum-and-bass and..her clever, barb-infested flow... .. Rolling Stone ..Britain..s finest MC is a five-foot-one white girl from the wrong side of town. Lady Sovereign hates being compared to Eminem, which is hard to avoid these days if you..re A) white, B) a rapper and C) really, really good... .. Blender ..Her size, color, sex and nationality may set Sov well apart from the herd, but her flow is just as arresting: an electrifying mixture of Jamaican dancehall ..chat,.. British cultural reference points, and a playful wit all her own... .. Elle ..Besides, [Lady Sovereign]..s good: pithy, clever, and able to use her honking voice to humorous effect..with the hedged courage of a teenager determined to take on the world every time she walks out the door... .. The New Yorker ..Sovereign can cultivate a broader appeal because there aren..t any questions about her authenticity..The phenomenon of Lady Sovereign is not just about the rareness of an unmanufactured pop star..her story, up until now, is the story of a teenager in 2005. And like teenageness itself, there is something terrifying and thrilling about that... .. The Fader ..A leading player of the grime scene, Lady Sovereign is poised to conquer America with her debut LP, courtesy of Def Jam... .. XXL ..The diminutive rapper, who recently threw down a few verses in Jay-Z..s boardroom, has the outsize personality that propels artists out of subcultures....   More about Lady Sovereign: www.ladysovereign.com
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