DUSTY CRATES

Fly Girls

Soul Jazz Records released Fly Girls! to celebrate the 30th anniversary of female rap on record. Respect to that! More ammo for me to work into my DJ sets.

This double-CD (and limited edition two volumes of super-loud double-vinyl) narrates the story of female rap from its birth in the tenement block parties in New York City’s outer boroughs through to the dizzying career heights of Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott and other modern day power brokers. ‘Fly Girls!’ also discusses the influence of an earlier generation of black female poets whose ideals (both in their art and how they established career paths) helped lay the foundations for birth of the genre.

The one thing I wish this collection had done was bring it up to date with the latest female MCs on the scene: Rye Rye, Amanda Blank and Kid Sis. These ladies are def takin it to the next!

Check out the rest of the Fly Girls! review at ComplicatedDanceSteps.

Then listen here:

Fly Girls! – V/A (Soul Jazz Records)

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