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Lil Mama - VYP: Voice of the Young People
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| Lil Mama's giddy hit ''Lip Gloss'' entered the hip-hop glamosphere last summer with nothing but a spartan bass line, handclaps, and a simple rap — ''My lip gloss is cool, my lip gloss be poppin'/I'm standing at my locker, and all the boys keep stoppin''' — and this precocious energy infuses the teen's first full-length. Sure, Voice of the Young People can suffer from overblown production, as on the nursery-rhyming ''G-Slide (Tour Bus).'' But kids will dig smart, quick cuts like the Southern-fried snap of ''Shawty Get Loose,'' featuring Chris Brown, who adds the ''special'' to Mama's sauce....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Fans of Lil Mama's infectious "Lip Gloss" have been waiting nearly a year for the release of her debut album, wondering perhaps if the CD would emphasize this young MC's desire to join the ranks of New York's rap elite or to turn Miley Cyrus devotees into hip-hop heads. "VYP: Voice of the Young People" suggests that those two goals needn't be mutually exclusive. Presiding over tracks produced by A-listers including Dr. Luke, T-Pain, Cool & Dre and Scott Storch, Lil Mama shows off some impressive verbal firepower here, like when she challenges her skeptics over a booming trash-can beat in "One Hit Wonder....full text |
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| Guardian |
| "Whatchoo know 'bout me?" demands the 18-year-old MC born Niatia Kirkland on Lip Gloss, the American hit that kicks off her debut album. We know several things: that she can spit out pop-rap rhymes with the insouciance of someone twice her age; as a self-proclaimed role model, she keeps her music "clean"; and she's judicious in her choice of collaborators. Her verses on a remix of Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend add icy coolness to that shrill tune, while a duet with R&B pin-up Chris Brown, Shawty Get Loose, is uplifting to a fault....full text |
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