Yo Majesty - Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid reviews
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| Nme |
 Sent as if a gift from the God they namecheck so often to confound the easily shocked, Yo Majesty are White Van Man’s idea of the typical government arts funding recipient made flesh. Black, Christian, lesbian rappers? You couldn’t make it up. If you were expecting something tokenistically righteous, po-faced or ranting you’ve come to the wrong women. Yo Majesty have the odd lesson to impart, for sure, as the ‘White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)’-update of ‘Night Riders’ proves, with its first-hand tales of hard times and disillusion. First and foremost, they’re here to teach by example, and their curriculum centres around how to, as Jwl B puts it on the baile-tinged party rap of ‘Grindin’ And Shakin’’, to "go ’head, with your bad self". Make no mistake, this is a party record. From ‘Club Action’’s spare feel and squidgy bassline to ‘Party Hardy’ with its lurching, Missy Elliott-ish electro sass, Shunda K and Jwl B are cruising the scene, giving it some attitude and crowing, “I look too good to be in this club… I just laugh and smile ’cos your bitch say she wanna come home with me”. It’s underdog ire capering behind stock braggadocio to create fresh, fun outsider music that isn’t going to ask nicely to be invited to the cool parties....full text |
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| Blender |
| When Yo Majesty released their maiden EP in 2006, they set up shop in the hip-hop wilderness. Three hulking lesbians (they’ve since dropped down to a duo) speed-rapping about sexual domination over throwback electro beats, they weren’t exactly 106 & Park material. More like Jerry Springer: MCs Jwl. B and Shunda K met in 2001 at a gay nightclub in Florida, and Shunda quit the group for several years and married a missionary before returning to music (and the love of women). They hijack typically male-owned pop themes—onstage, Jwl regularly tears off her shirt, showing her tits in a move that’s as much an act of aggression as a come-on. The craziest moment on this debut LP is “Fucked Up,” where they beg to have their pussies eaten one second, their teeth smashed the next. It’s an abrasive, masochistic jam about manic desire, a deranged scream from even farther out in the woods....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Rappers Shunda K and Jwl B, from Tampa, Florida, could have been a couple of characters written for The Wire: they're portly, punky, God-fearing lesbians, prone to stripping down to the waist on stage. They are, on this startling debut, X-rated, terrifying and funny, not least on brutal opener Fucked Up, which has the girls slashing tyres and asking to be hit in the face - all in the name of a skewed love affair. They handle sex in a rather more direct fashion than Salt-n-Pepa did two decades ago, hollering on Hott: "Have you ever had an orgasm when you're pissed?" The music is provided by half a dozen hip producers, including Basement Jaxx, who back the girls with crunk, Miami bass, dancehall and house. But Yo Majesty prove adept at pop, too, with the ballad Buy Love akin to TLC's Unpretty, and the melodic Don't Let Go merely salacious rather than utter filth....full text |
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