Looks like there might be some repetition from Rhino's *Fat Beats And Bra Straps* comps from a few years back, but it's pretty amazing to see Two Sisters on there. Thought I was the only person who knew about them -- great album, as much proto-Latin-freestyle as rap. (Actually, that's when they still called the stuff "Latin hip-hop," I think: 1983 or so maybe?)
A shame there's no L'Trimm or Real Roxanne or Trina, though.
A couple months ago, fwiw, I did a "Female Rap Essentials" column for *Spin*; included this blurb on the first (and best) volume of that Rhino set; looks like Soul Jazz included most of the names I mentioned, though not Ice Cream Tee apparently:
>(Various Artists) Fat Beats And Bra Straps: Hip-Hop Classics (Rhino, 1988) Both Roxannes (Shante and popwise Puerto Rican Real Roxanne), Latifah at her early best, and scores of ebullient back-in-the-day one-shots you’d confuse without a scorecard: Ice Cream Tee, Sweet Tee, Sparky D, the wonderfully clattering Dimples D. <
I think that - as you might expect - SoulJazz majored on artists that made some impression in the UK (although the Real Roxanne certainly did, while there are a couple of artists included that I'd never heard of before).
^I'm just guessing here: while I bought the CD yesterday I haven't unwrapped it yet so haven't read the liner notes.
Yes, Ice Cream Tee's "Guys Ain't Nothin But Trouble" is the glaring omission IMHO.
You and Frank should pitch a follow-up freestyle comp to SoulJazz!
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A shame there's no L'Trimm or Real Roxanne or Trina, though.
A couple months ago, fwiw, I did a "Female Rap Essentials" column for *Spin*; included this blurb on the first (and best) volume of that Rhino set; looks like Soul Jazz included most of the names I mentioned, though not Ice Cream Tee apparently:
>(Various Artists) Fat Beats And Bra Straps: Hip-Hop Classics (Rhino, 1988) Both Roxannes (Shante and popwise Puerto Rican Real Roxanne), Latifah at her early best, and scores of ebullient back-in-the-day one-shots you’d confuse without a scorecard: Ice Cream Tee, Sweet Tee, Sparky D, the wonderfully clattering Dimples D. <
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^I'm just guessing here: while I bought the CD yesterday I haven't unwrapped it yet so haven't read the liner notes.
Yes, Ice Cream Tee's "Guys Ain't Nothin But Trouble" is the glaring omission IMHO.
You and Frank should pitch a follow-up freestyle comp to SoulJazz!