LOVE ME OR HATE ME - LADY SOVEREIGN
From the U.K. garage/grime scene rises Lady Sovereign, a Jay-Z protege looking to rattle the hip-hop scene stateside. First single “Love Me or Hate Me” off debut album “Public Warning” finds the young MC declaring herself “officially the biggest midget in the game,” rapping about having hairy armpits, missing Shepherd’s pie and drinking Heineken beers and burping. Despite the anarchic attitude, the track sounds wholly commercial and designed for radio. In fact, if you listen closely, you can detect the familiar hook of Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady,” but this doesn’t come close to Em lyrically. Closing with “I can’t dance and I really can’t sing/I can only do one thing and that’s be Lady Sovereign,” we wonder if that’s enough. Billboard
