Amanda Blank | Might Like You Better (mp3)
April 10th, 2009
Over the last few years we’ve seen our share of solo female emcees, many of which dabbled in the electro-scene and raunchy raps. I despised most of them (mostly because they couldn’t rap well at all), but always had a special liking to a Ms. Amanda Blank. After seeing her rock the stage alongside Spankrock at last years Rock The Bells (which was just downright sexy), I knew home girl had a talent beyond the rest. Something has to be said for a sexy emcee going hard on her sexuality, REALLY well. “Damn did she just say that?”… is what you’ll find yourself saying while listening, Amanda manages to fill a long lived void left by the likes of Salt N Pepa & L’Trimm (Lady Tigra is amounting a budding comeback.)
RCRDLBL drops her new single “Might Like You Better,” off the much delayed new album, I Love You. It’s a club-banger and looking forward to a summer full of them from her. By the way, XXXChange is on the boards with the beat!
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Comment by Mexy — April 10, 2009 @ 11:17 am
wow..wow comparing Salt & Pepa to L trimm?That’s like comparing Queen Latifah to Kid Sister. As far as the song or “emcee”’s talent I sure you can guess what I think of that.
Comment by Hamza21 — April 10, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
Who’s comparing Salt & Pepa to L’Trimm? I’m just rattling off some examples of some early-90’s female rappers that would get down on a feel-good, raunch or party track. After those gal’s female rappers either got mad gangster or went commercial hoe…
No one would compare Kid Sister to Queen Latifah, those are your words not mine. I understand your apprehension to “new” & “trendy” music, thats cool, the “purists” & “true believers” all have a role in the grand cycle of things… but I was a teen once & I liked music that the whole world told me was stupid and dumb and didn’t meet some imaginary caliber of music, but I liked it, and I related to it, and thats all that friggen matters homie.
Do you really expect 17-year old girls on some mass scale to go and run to Monie Love when they want to hear a female rapper? Not happening, they weren’t even born when she peaked. This is it… MIA, Santigold, Rye Rye, Amanda Blank these are the new females leading the pack in music, deal with it or not.
Comment by Gopi — April 10, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
& on top of that, Do I want to listen to Monie Love, Salt N Pepa, Queen Latifah?… nope I done heard that I want something new, and these female’s are delivering it with a refreshing take. Simple as 1-2-3…
Comment by Gopi — April 10, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
That’s the problem today. There’s no appreciation for the past. It has to be “new” when in reality it’s not new. A female talking sexual things over beat with computer generated sounds in song….hmm…..Grace Jones maybe in 1970’s?Donna summer in disco era perhaps?
It is said to undermine and destroy a people,nation or culture you cut off people form there past. If people don’t have understanding of how things were then you can easily manipulate to believe your version of reality. I and many others see that’s exactly what’s happening.
If you don’t know what was considered good in the past and why. Then you definition can easily be manipulated and controlled by others. That’s exactly what has been happening since 94 in music business.
Speaking of female emcees if you compared MIA,Amanda Blank to female emcees of past then you will have decent idea of what a female emcee should sound like and have standard of which to judge.
When you take female emcees from early 80’s Sha Rock,Debbie D and even Angie Stone (Angie b) and compared them to late 80’s emcees you see a progression. However, you take a Queen Latifah,Salt & Pepa, Medusa and compare them to these emcees today you definitely see a regression.
Lauryn Hill to Amanda Blank..a definite regression.
Lauryn Hill to Kelley Mak or Sirah One.. not regression nor progression but as least equal quality.
Comment by Hamza21 — April 10, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
You assume because people want something new they don’t appreciate & understand the history of music & musicians from the past. WRONG.
How many times can I watch Season 1 of the Office? 1, 2, 3 times? Then I want to change it up and find something new… I came across 30 Rock… that show is fly, now I watch that… does that mean I don’t appreciate The Office season 1 anymore? Nope, just means I’m tired of Office Season 1 and want to watch something different. Is 30 Rock revolutionary different? No, it actually is sort of similar with rudimentary differences, but that’s what attracted me to it (& maybe thats why NBC offers them back to back)… “But hey isn’t all that the same shit as Taxi and other situational office comedies of before, why don’t you just watch those?” - Because people can’t connect to those shows anymore! And thats not because of a lack of appreciation they don’t have to build a shrine to show that, they can show it through their appreciation for the Office & 30 Rock that have been undoubtedly influenced by it’s great predecessors of before.
Back to music:
I consider myself a pretty music saavy guy, one of the first songs I can remember being exposed to was Snoop Dogg’s “Gin & Juice” when I was 8 years old. That shit was fly it started me down a path of music obsession, up until 11th grade I was feverishly downloading new Ruff Ryda & Three-6 Mafia off mIRC… fast forward 7 years later and after a ton of learning, I now know that Dre on “Gin & Juice” sampled the bassline off George McCrae’s “I Get Lifted” which is an amazing song in itself & an amazing musician!.. That is appreciation of the past, you could have given me the George McCrae record when I was 8 year’s old and I would have toss it in a trash bin, but after two decades of learning, experiencing & exploring modern music I’ve barely sorted that fact out… and I wouldn’t have the motivation or interest to do any of it unless I connected to CURRENT music as an 8 year old and developed a life long connection to music.
So yeah isn’t it a shame more young ladies don’t listen to Lauryn Hill? Sure… but life is a long time, with a long musical score, the Amanda Blank fans of today may be the Grace Jones & Donna Summer aficionado’s of tomorrow. Don’t be so cynical, music goes on, the lessons of culture are passed onto the next generation knowingly or not & sometimes without appreciation, but it still gets passed.
Comment by Gopi — April 11, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
sorry no real time to offer a complete-thought comment, but couldn’t leave without saying “well said, Gopi. Well said.” Cheers.
Comment by Collleen — April 13, 2009 @ 4:29 pm