Lady Sovereign Public Warning

Posted on 10.31.2006

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Lady Sovereign
Album : Public Warning
Release Date : October 31, 2006
Label : Def Jam

"The biggest midget in the game" isn’t a boast one soon forgets — especially when it’s punctuated seconds later by a nasty "burp in your face." Meet Lady Sovereign, whose frenetic flow and Eminem-like sass have already won the diminutive twenty-year-old a dedicated following in her native U.K. Despite the sponsorship of label boss Jay-Z, Sov doesn’t have much in common with most stateside rappers. Her voice — which alternates between a toddler’s whine and an elderly croak — ensures that her strongest songs have a gloss of novelty, from the playfully rowdy "Random" ("Everybody get random !" she urges, before funning on American accents) to the fits-and-starts wordplay of "A Little Bit of Shhh." Despite some uneven striving-for-maturity moments (the fluffy nostalgia of "Those Were the Days"), Sov’s at her best when she doesn’t take herself too seriously, as on the wickedly self-deprecatory "Love Me or Hate Me."

"Public Warning" was recorded with Sov’s live band at The Roundhouse in Manchester on her UK tour in November 2005. Sov’s favourite track from the forthcoming album and the finale of her live show "Public Warning" features elements of drum and bass, rock and grime. A mix of tempos, "Public Warning" shows off Sov’s versatility to mix different styles in one stand-out track, as Sov puts it ; it’s her "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Tracklisting :

Disc : 1
1. 9 to 5
2. Gatheration
3. Random
4. Public Warning
5. Love Me or Hate Me
6. My England
7. Tango
8. Little Bit of Shhh
9. Hoodie
10. Those Were the Days
11. Blah Blah
12. Fiddle with the Volume
13. Love Me or Hate Me [Remix] - Missy Elliott, Lady Sovereign
Disc : 2
1. Discotech
2. Find a New Way

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Lady Sovereign Public Warning, by don’t mater [2007-06-02 01:02:40]

she’s bad ass you guy’s are dum and im from england and what !!!!!!

Lady Sovereign Public Warning, by NONE YO BUSINESS ! [2007-04-20 15:06:32]

Why it always got to be about race ? to be honest I think that AA are the ones that are racist now. Hell, white ppl are the minorities not black. Why is it okay for you to talk about white but if a white say somethin to you, you wanna go all crazy and shit ? No one threw in the race card but you, so shut yo mouth bi*ch ! IDK where you from but down here, we all roll 2gether ! Black, white, indian, asian, blue, it dont f’in matter. As long as you cool. BTW- how come black ppl can join rock,country, golf and its cool. But a damn white gurl try to be down and you hatin ? Kiss my bi-racial ass hoe !

Lady Sovereign Public Warning, by Izzy_the_Bitch [2007-04-07 19:14:36]

She is new she’s cool she sells she makes people money and the only bad thing about her is those damn freaky half braids.But I agree she should stick to one style and loose the squeak.

Lady Sovereign Public Warning, by Smokkey [2006-11-02 16:50:49]

this gurl needs to go back to where she came from aint nobody tryna see a white girl try to rap...if the white man cant jump then what makes yall think that a white girl can rap...them lyrics pertain to white immigrants anyway...hip hop may not have a skin color but it sure aint got no white girl in it... thats why they have pop techno and them other crazy stuff they listen too... look it took a while for everyone to get adjusted for JT but now couple years later they see he got something here which is just timberlands beats... i say deport her back to where she came from... plus braids or half braids do not look or go well on a white girl... i dont want to pay her dam bills its her people who keep on putting minorities down... tell her to go bye bye bye