The decline of female emceeing makes its way into the news with this report from Billboard/Reuters.
Trying to buck this trend is Sick Notes artist, Mae Day. The 24 year old native Detroiter is featured in a recent Real Detroit article.
Tom Matich describes Mae’s rhyme style and is told how Coiya Renee Wilson got her rap name.
Over the speakers, she comes in with a gushing, bouncing, nasal, rhetorical flow that punches with reverberating pronunciation. She’s a street-smart, hoody drawn down, mic blasting Jay-Z meshed with the art house, neo-soul afocentricity of Lauryn Hill pre-acoustic ramblings. She takes her name from Grace Jones’s character in the Roger Moore James Bond film, A View To A Kill. Jones was one of the first black Bond Girls.
“We were looking for a name one day,” Mae says. “I had other names before but it didn’t capture who I was. One day I went online and looked through a lot of movie characters and that’s the one that stuck.”
Mae Day and Sick Notes Entertainment have released the debut, Something’s Gotta Give this June. It will feature Tone Tone, Swedish singer Ana Diaz and some o’ that Sick Notes production. The album is available online at www.streetcornermusic.com.
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