Thursday, June 23, 2011
"They Got The Swag And Its Coming Out They Ovaries"
This is Kreayshawn. She is a part of the White Girl Mob, hailing from none other than East Oakland, CA. Her song, "Gucci Gucci", is currently blowing up the airwaves and empowering young women everywhere to say "fuck that fancy shit, the style...the spark...the SWAG is inside of YOU!" As anyone would expect, they have polarized the music-oriented people of the world. To some, she is a flippant middle finger to the stereotypical female role in the current world of hip hop. I mean, when was the last time a tiny white lesbian grabbed the mic and spit a verse more infectious than the common cold? Others view her as everything wrong with hip hop and even pop culture at large, and they just can't hate enough. Regardless of any opinion anyone has, their impact on music in 2011 can't be ignored. I was fortunate enough to have a friend put on a show for them at Som Bar in San Francisco back in May. Obviously, the show sold out in no time flat, but scuzzy, grimey, salty old me breezed right by the line and into the show (in a denim vest with Black Sabbath Vol. 4 backpatch, no less), much to dismay of the white thirty-somethings dressed to the nines in brand new Supreme streetwear. Performance wise, Kreayshawn and her White Girl Mob are still trying to gathering their sea legs as far as being comfortable on stage and commanding a crowd. I'm giving them a bit of a pass seeing as how they haven't played all that many shows, and judging them harshly would be a tad hasty and premature. In reality, how well they held it down onstage didn't matter because the show was allegedly became bidding war between a handful of labels looking to throw down a lot of cash for the chance to put out homegirl's next record (apparently Columbia won). What I witnessed essentially was the last show Kreayshawn was ever going to play in a venue that realistically held one hundred people comfortably at best. I didn't have any sort of "in" to try and lock down an interview with Kreayshawn, so I did the only thing I could do: take pictures. I'm no Ansel Adams or Annie Leibowitz, but I did the best I could with an iPhone. Here are some pics of what will most likely be the last small show Kreayshawn and the White Girl Mob ever play.
"One big room...full of bad bitches..."
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