Lady Sovereign

UK pressing of the debut album by female British MC Lady Sovereign features one bonus track: 'Pretty Vacant' (Live At Commodore Ballroom). Her recent success in the US is all the more remarkable because she’s steadfastly stuck to her uniquely UK sound. You’ll find no Neptunes makeover. No MOR ballads have snuck into the set. Sovereign’s still rhyming about shepherd’s pie, Tango and Tony Blair. She’s still playing havoc with musical genres; mixing up Rap and Pop, Punk and Grime, the social comment with the wisecracks. In other words: she’s still all the things that made her stand out in the first place. The album features fourteen tracks including early singles ‘Random’, ‘Public Warning’ and ‘Hoodie’ as well as new single ‘Love Me Or Hate Me’ (which has sold over 125,00 digital units in the US so far and the video for which has seen Sovereign become the first British artist to have the N ...

2006-10-31 - Def Jam