CANARY SING – BOSS LADIES: A MIXTAPE
Canary Sing named their hip-hop project after Danny Senza’s quote from Caucasia that states “The mulatto in America functions as a canary in a coal mine…Likewise, mulattos have historically been the gauge of how poisonous American race relations were”. The mixed race ladies that compose Canary Sing, Hollis Wong-Wear (Ispire) and Madeleine Clifford (Lioness), rap about race, gender and so much more. If you’re not lucky enough to get to see them rap their hearts out on stage, this mixtape is the next best thing. Spoken word poets from Seattle, they infuse awesome beats with witty and biting social commentary. These girls are smart. Really, really smart. Confident and cool, they spit lyrics such as “Even when I was young they put me into speech therapy/Couldn’t understand my sentences cuz I was spewing prophecy” and “Go ahead and call me bizarre/I still brawl with the raw patois” in the mixtape’s first track, ‘Freak Show’. They entirely re-work Dead Prez’s ‘Mind Sex’ and infuse it with sexy intellectualism, talking about boys who are “suave like Nabokov”. The two final tracks feature other artists such as Gabriel Teodros, LA, Chev Rajnii Eddins, One.Two, and Slay. If you like your hip-hop socially conscious and female-fronted, this mixtape is for you.
Track listing: Freak Show, Sippin Coffee Remix, Mind Sex Remix, Forward and Raindrops
Check out their music video for Freak Show!
5-track compact disc
$5