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Much has been pondered about Lauryn Hill, especially after this interview in France, L Boogie silences all doubt in this month's listening party.

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This compilation aims to be a rough guide to the world of female MC's, giving a taster of each MC's style and content. While every effort has been made to make She MC as inclusive as possible, it is not totally comprehensive, short of mugging some middle aged B.Boys on the other side of the Atlantic, it is unlikely that some of the earliest and rarest female MC records will make it on to this compilation. - DJ DJ HoneyTrap xxx
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playlist
1. "Spittin A Verse"- Pri the Honey Dark 2. "Baby Daddy" - Blue Raspberry 3. "Another Girl" - Kristin Mainhart 4. "Pure Love" - Miki Vale 5. "It's Ok" - Blu 6. "Break Free" - Ang 13 7. "All Is Fair " - Joanna Manzo 8. "Watch Me" - Jean Grae 9. "Full Circle" - Makeba Mooncycle 10. "Oh" - Tiflon 11. "Take What You Want" - Medusa 12. "Wholly" - Neycha 13. "Just Believe" - Carmen Rodgers 14. "Feel It " - Motion 15. "Different f Clyde" - Goapele

Core DJ Sinamin and sponsor of the Ladies of the Lou breaks ya off with an ill old school mix, takin' it back and definately hittin' it from the back. Get atcha gyrl at www.myspace.com/djsinamin

THIS YOUNG TALENTED SINGER/ RAPPER/ MODEL/ ACTRESS/ AND AUTHOR HAS BEEN TEARING DOWN WALLS FOR OVER THREE YEARS NOW IN HER CITY OF ST. LOUIS. HER LISTENERS FALL SILENT ALMOST INSTANTLY.. AND ALL WHO HAS WITNESSED HER MIND NUMBING PERFOMANCES HAVE SHARED A REACTION THAT HAS BRANDED TOYY DAVIS AS "THE TOTAL PACKAGE." IF AT ALL DOUBTFUL.. RESEARCH THE 1000's OF SITES THAT ARE LINKED TO THE FOUR LETTERS..T-O-Y-Y AND YOU WILL SOON FIND THAT THESE STATEMENTS ARE NOT OPINIONS..TOYY HAS EARNED HER STRIPES IN ALL HER FEILDS OF TALENT, AND TRUELY IS A HEAVY WEIGHT IN ALL CATAGORIES.. AND THIS INCLUDES THE FEILD OF SPITTIN'.. MALE RAPPERS CAN'T EVEN BE COMPARED TO TOYY DAVIS WHICH I MUST DESCRIBE NON OTHER THAN.. "THE LITTLE SECRET IN ST. LOUIS!"
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Fly Moves Productions presents BEE with THE TRUTH STINGS Mixtape Vol 1 including the upcoming single FAKE BALLAS hosted by DJ Lonnie Bee, The Urban DJ Legend featuring Baby Huey, Nite Owl, Steve STone, CT, Mr Zion, Bigg Bone, 2Thumbsup, Dawn & Joka. Get atcha gyrl at www.myspace.com/aboutbee

Jade Foxx breaks fans off with anotha dope mix co starring Buck, Syc Omega, Cause Disaster, Sense L, Skitz the Gemini, C-Rena, Remy Ma, Majik Most, Pharell, Fabolous, Angelous, Jimi Hendrix & Royce Da 5'9. Get at Jade at www.myspace.com/jadefoxx

Listen to Flipmode's Rah Digga & NYC's Chocolate Thai tag team on Bumsquad DJ's Raj & L-Gee's new mix hosted by Babs Bunny. Get at Chocolate Thai at http://www.myspace.com/chocolatethainy

The very first hip hop mixtape featuring exclusively female artists from DC. Maryland & VA. Enjoy the lofi version of this classic while we prepare the hifi version.

Hip Hop, Rock, 80's, Mash up Mix CD

About DJ Shortee
Playboy's official 50th Anniversary tour DJ, Urb's Next 100, 1st female to produce an instructional DJ DVD series & the 1st & only female to produce a turntablist album, Shortee is recognized as one of the most diverse & technically skilled female DJs in the world. She has been ranked the No. 1 Female Turntablist worldwide, No. 1 Female Hip Hop DJ worldwide & No. 11 overall (all genres) as reported by SheJay Magazine.

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The Fader
Magazine #36
Vinyl Archaeology Column
First Wave Freestyle
Written by DJ Ayres

Sure there’s geek appeal to poindextering out to obscure records, but when
it's time to party, those sealed Axelrods ain't gonna cut it. (Unless you party
with morphine, but that’s a different story.) Since every ’80s pop record
been worn out already, it’s time to channel your inner 15 year-old Puerto
Rican girl with some freestyle. Freestyle was crossover music, combining the
electro hip-hop jam and the pop ballad to create a new style that was equally
comfortable in metropolitan dance clubs as on the Billboard Top 10. Early ’80s
tracks "Planet Rock" from Afrika Bambaataa, "Let the Music
Play" by Shannon and Freeez’s "IOU" were the pre-style hits
that jump-started the movement, freestyle just added big hair, unrequited love
and a cheese factor turned up to 11. Its producers kept the space synths and the
drum machines of electro, but replaced the raps and computerized voices with
mostly young, untrained (predominantly female) singers. If electro was about the
future, then freestyle was about romance. Freestyle’s reign at the top receded
at the end of the ’80s, but its influence is still felt in new electro pop
like Ciara’s “1, 2 Step” and Brooke Valentine’s “Boogie Oogie.” To
this day, new and classic freestyle is played on the dance radio stations in New
York, New Jersey and Miami, but this will focus on hits from the first wave that
lasted from 1985 to 1987.

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force (CBS 1985)

With "I Wonder If I Take You Home" in 1985, Lisa Lisa became the first
real "Latin hip-hop" star, even if she was a singer (albeit an
excellent one and a total fox). Up until that point, most of the Latino DJs in
New York were playing records by black hip-hop and pop artists, but Lisa Lisa
was a Puerto Rican from Brooklyn that they could embrace as their own. Like
Jellybean Benitez did on earlier electro jumpoff "The Mexican", the
Cult Jam would sample Lisa Lisa's voice and retrigger phrases, pitching her up
and down the keyboard—a often obnoxious technique that became a trademark for
freestyle productions and edits.

Exposé
“Point Of No Return” 12-Inch (Arista 1985)

After Lisa Lisa hit it big in the Latin club scene, producers in New York and
Miami were scouring the streets for young talent to record their lyrics and make
them some money. Miami producer Lewis A Martineé found three singers and turned
them into Exposé, who would go on to become the genre’s biggest group. A
crucial trick to making a hot freestyle record was a keyboard melody so simple
that the first time you heard it, it sounded like the hundredth. The
salsa-inflected xylophone synth on "Point Of No Return" is catchy as
fuck, but I can't cosign on the vomitous guitar solo before the final verse.

TKA
“Scars Of Love” 12-Inch (Tommy Boy 1987)

Like Exposé, TKA was a manufactured group, but this time it was three male
teenagers from the Bronx. They were discovered by Joey Gardner, an A&R rep
from Tommy Boy Records, who convinced them to stop rapping and focus on singing.
He became their manager and put them in the studio with the Latin Rascals, who
were big radio DJs and freestyle/house edit kings at the time. TKA were soft
like one-day-old shit (they wore turtlenecks and sung about their feelings), and
young girls went batshit for "Scars Of Love.” TKA’s tacky emo sound
anticipated pop boy bands like New Kids On The Block and when you turn on the
radio in Long Island or on the Jersey shore today, you still hear music that
sounds exactly like this.

The Cover Girls
Show Me (Fever 1987)

The Cover Girls were another party-in-a-cereal-box prefab group out of New York,
but like TKA, the Cover Girls stood out from a lot of cookie cutter groups
thanks to the Latin Rascals, whose drum programming and vocal edits stay

Soulbrotha & Fusebox Radio present Music For Agony: A Mixtape Collection as Hosted by DJ Fusion

1. Intro; Anguish
2. Answers
3. First Glance Interlude
4. Afraid
5. How Can I Be Mad At That
6. In Many Ways
7. The Offer RMX
8. Believe It
9. Realize feat. Mint Condition
10. Precious Pearls
11. Broken Spirits
12. God Is Love
13. Outro

DJ Fusion & The FuseBox Radio Broadcast
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Step Into A World....the Ladies of Hip Hop Mix featuring Paula Perry, Lauryn Hill, Lyte Da MC, Queen Latifah, Antionette, Roxanne Shante, Ladybug Mecca, Salt N Pepa and more! Enjoy this lofi version while we process the hifi version.