We gave it an A Three years ago Queen Latifah tore the rap world apart, slapping macho rappers in the mouth with her fast and furious feminist rhymes, hitting them below the belt with groove-heavy rhythms and hard street beats. She spiced up hip-hop with a fierce house-music tempo, infused rap with Jamaican-style chanting and toasting, and never sounded contrived.

Now an established club and recording artist at 21, Latifah is staking out new ground. Nature of a Sista’ bounces with the Queen’s usual dose of feisty, fresh rhymes, but it also shows her softer, more feminine side. She still keeps the brothers in check (”Latifah’s Had It Up to Here” and the album’s first single, ”Fly Girl”), but she’s toned down the sass and become more sensual and sophisticated. Here’s one woman who rejects sexism, but not sex. There’s more to Latifah than just gender politics; she purrs on some of the album’s slower tracks, then picks up the tempo on the ragamuffin-style ”Sexy Fancy,” which shows that Queen Latifah can be hard-line and playful at the same time.

May 27, 2011 Mix - Queen Latifah - Nature of a Sista YouTube; Queen Latifah - Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here. Queen Latifah's CD was phenomenal, and it showed the meaning of hip-hop/rap. Classic with the beats, Latifah showed what it meant to be a Queen.

There’s something else special in the nature of this deep and resonant sista’: class.

In 1989 Queen Latifah hit the scene with her debut album, which would move enough units to earn the female emcee a gold plaque and heaps of critical acclaim with her positive messages on women’s rights, black America, and Africa. Speaking of units, Latifah would spend the next few years building up her Flava Unit posse with producers, emcees, and ghost writers (more on that later), whom would all help in contributing to her sophomore effort. Did not move a ton of units, nor was it received well by the critics as most gave it an average rating (The Source gave it 3 mics and Rolling Stone gave it 3 stars) and accused the Queen of deliberately trying to sellout crossover.

Treasure Of The Old Man Of The Pyramids Pdf. Did the Queen abandon her throne in search of more gold? Or possibly platinum? Let’s give a listen and find out the truth about a sista. Latifah’s Had It Up 2 Here – opens with arguably my favorite Queen Latifah song of all time. The song opens with smooth keys played by Dave Bellochio before the rest of the mid-tempo Kay-Gee produced groove comes in to pleasures your ears. It’s clear that Treach penned La’s rhymes (if you close your eyes and listen closely you can hear Treach’s cadence and wordplay in her flow), which have her sounding razor sharp.

Even though I don’t condone ghostwriting, this song is still fire. Give it to em’ Queen! Nuff’ Of The Ruff’ Stuff – Louis Vega (gets a nod for the 3rd consecutive post) provides a “ruff” instrumental for the Queen to spit on. Technically the song is sound, but it never really grabbed me. One Mo’ Time – Naughty By Nature gets their second production credit of the evening. Kay-Gee provides another smooth mid tempo instrumental with keyboard credited to Dave Bellochio. And again, its evident that our hostess’ lines were written by Treach. This one sounds as good today as it did 20 plus years ago.

Give Me Your Love – marks the beginning of Latifah experimenting with singing, which she would continue to do the remainder of her music career. The Denmark production duo of SoulShock and CutFather provide a danceable r&b instrumental for her to lick her chops on. Love Again – SoulShock and CutFather provide another r&b tinged instrumental. Capcom Classics Collection 2 Xbox Iso Zone. Our hostess does sing the hook on this one but chooses to drop bars as she questions black on black crime/hate. I kind of dig the instrumental; it reminds me of the Living Single theme. This was cool.