"I'm helping give hip-hop a much-needed facelift. Hip-hop got so gosh darn boring after a while and so formulaic, its almost like hip-hop became a victim of itself for so long because people that made hip-hop music it wanted to become mainstream and it was not. "
(Kid Sister in Format Mag )
In the last eighteen months already complex artists like Santogold, Janelle Monáe and Amanda Blank made, each with very opinionated approaches on a combination of Hip Hop, R'n'B, Indie , rave and pop attention. With Kid Sister now sends to another artist to continue this Ekklektizismus of a hip-hop context from. Melisa Young grew up in the southern suburbs of Chicago and started her musical studies for a film career in the context of club nights the DJ team Flosstradamus. Accordingly, it was first made last year in a club context: as a guest rapper of the British dance production team The Count & Sinden, she gave the bass line Kracher "Beeper" the necessary flow.
Kid shine Sisters own singles with a combination of hip hop, house, pop and electro clash, which they touch interfaces where already Avenue D, Bunny Rabbit, or Fanny Pack moving - such as the bass -stressed Electro-track "Control", in collaboration with Kanye West caused "Pro Nails" and "Get Fresh", where a reduced instrumented with a verse in the early Dizzee Rascal not unlike rap (before it went on shaky Trance paths ) meet the harmonies of Mylos "Drop the Pressure". The most convincing this mixture well to succeed the current single "Right Hand Hi" with dance floor compatible synthesizer riffs, rave quotes and a catchy hands in the air -chorus. That it can go musically quite different, proving Young and guest rapper David Banner on the casual hip-hop track "Family Reunion", the both reminiscent of 90s R & B artists like SWV and to the soulful excursions of house pioneers Inner City.
Indeed many of the existing sound tracks from Kid Sister as a contemporary version of Hip House, that genre that quickly disappeared after a brief flowering in 1989 from the scene and only occasionally aufschwappte again. In an interview with Format Mag she revealed that this mixture has a lot to do with the musical past of her hometown, the birthplace of house sounds in the mid eighties: "It comes part-and-parcel with living in this city, no matter who you are, even if you're the hardest ass dude, you will have some house. (...) I do know that in Chicago, you can be a convicted gang member, convicted of killing someone like, it does not matter. You will like the gayest house ever. It's a very strange phenomenon but it's part of living here. "
After several delays finally soon the debut album, which is dominated, according to his own statements, especially from faster hip hop and house tracks will be released. Besides co-production with The Count & Sinden and XXXChange Spank Rock will probably be primarily a collaboration with the British MC Estelle a promising climax. Both worked earlier this year on song "First Ladies" together for a repeat of the classic by Monie Love and Queen Latifah - understood unambiguously as a homage "to the ladies who came first without being too cheesy. You can not cross the line into the land of cheese. I think we steered clear of that ". In the opening quotation of Hip Hop announced Aufmöbelung should therefore be nothing in the path.
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