Talk about disappointment. Lioness finally returns to the grime scene after a bunch of great radio freestyles and ringing endorsement from Bearman and gives us this - a weak mixtape of half-baked hip hop tracks with a really annoying host.
Yeah, first obvious and damning flaw is that she's rapping...over rap beats. Good beats (You're a Jerk, Comfortable, a few others) and only a few remotely grimey tracks (Good for a Girl (perhaps the best track here) and Where's My Sister (three guesses what that one's based off)). Grime MCs attempting hip hop almost always results in failure, they have to be damn good to pull off both genres equally (and as far as I'm concerned, only Ghetts and Goodz can deliver both and unfortunately Lioness doesn't have it, or at least not on here.
Her lyrics are decent, she's definitely capable, but nothing exceptional on display here. Sometimes she complains about being regarded as 'good for a girl' and treated differently because of it, then every other track sees her making a point about being female, like she can't make up her mind about whether or not she wants to use it as a gimmick. She sounds like a British Cash Money reject, throwing out some silly and non-sensical similies like "nuts like seeing Wallace without Gromit" (or something to that effect) which of course makes no sense as anyone who's watched the show will know they appear apart quite often, usually involving one rescuing the other.
The DJ/host guy is super annoying, it's like a Southern US hip hop mixtape where the guy just likes to be loud and funny without thinking things through (like saying "Okay let's knock up the tempo"...followed by a beat that's SLOWER than the last).
There are moments of interest but otherwise it's inconsistant and generic. Not worth your time despite being a free download.
Yeah, first obvious and damning flaw is that she's rapping...over rap beats. Good beats (You're a Jerk, Comfortable, a few others) and only a few remotely grimey tracks (Good for a Girl (perhaps the best track here) and Where's My Sister (three guesses what that one's based off)). Grime MCs attempting hip hop almost always results in failure, they have to be damn good to pull off both genres equally (and as far as I'm concerned, only Ghetts and Goodz can deliver both and unfortunately Lioness doesn't have it, or at least not on here.
Her lyrics are decent, she's definitely capable, but nothing exceptional on display here. Sometimes she complains about being regarded as 'good for a girl' and treated differently because of it, then every other track sees her making a point about being female, like she can't make up her mind about whether or not she wants to use it as a gimmick. She sounds like a British Cash Money reject, throwing out some silly and non-sensical similies like "nuts like seeing Wallace without Gromit" (or something to that effect) which of course makes no sense as anyone who's watched the show will know they appear apart quite often, usually involving one rescuing the other.
The DJ/host guy is super annoying, it's like a Southern US hip hop mixtape where the guy just likes to be loud and funny without thinking things through (like saying "Okay let's knock up the tempo"...followed by a beat that's SLOWER than the last).
There are moments of interest but otherwise it's inconsistant and generic. Not worth your time despite being a free download.
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