“Bumpin’ their heads to songs and they don’t really listen
Hoping that you do the same when they on stage performing
So I must just learn to be fake and befriend a DJ?
Have some toilet paper handy
Soon my song will be played
Then I’d be it, y’all!”
- The Game by MsSupa
(I wish I could quote the entire track)
Thank God for Heavy Wordz! As an avid follower, I saw them
share the info on the release of HerStory in the Making and immediately jumped
on it.
No regrets.
From the minute I saw just the artwork and the amount of tracks on it I knew that this
would be a very different and special EP. This is my very first encounter with a full MsSupa
project which made listening to this album a much better experience just
because I had nothing to compare it to – nothing to, worst case scenario, say
“it didn’t match” to. MsSupa is a very unique female MC that shows no signs of
inferiority that often unintentionally comes across in a lot of rap by sistaz.
HerStory In The Making has a self-explanatory title: the EP is a story that
will be remembered. The album starts with a Blaklez feature on ‘Dream’ which
sets the tone for the rest of the project. Supa raps about her dreams of
entering the hip-hop scene and the troubles she came across despite her skill
and love for the culture. In tracks like ‘Live’, MsSupa spits about the
unexpected struggles often faced in life mainly due to self-doubt and not
pushing through in the dark times. Although the EP is not packed full with
the illest punchlines, when she does drop a dope line, the need to instantly
rewind, replay and tweet it hits.
The most special thing about this EP is that MsSupa is taking
almost a completely different route to what the biggest rappers at the moment
such as Nadia Nakai or Kid X are taking in terms of content. In SA, our biggest
hit-makers and hits are mostly party-orientated and the females are mostly
spitting about being a female, their sexuality and being the hardest female. If
any, there is such little of this here. Sharing a similar mentality up-and-coming rapper Gigi LaMayne, MsSupa raps about how, given the fact that
she’s a female rapper, she already has had certain connotations placed against
her and has faced too many struggles. “Somebody said Hip Hop is like
basketball, it’s cute when girls go but it’s the men that score.”
With boombap beats, the motif in this EP is MsSupa’s
passion and love for the Hip Hop culture – which is beautiful. Accompanied by
guitar picking, tracks such as ‘Who’s That Lady’ made the album a very personal
one. Her ability to spit on a fair range of beats and adapt her flow
accordingly really came to life which was dope to explore with her. Tracks that
stood out to me were ‘Who’s That Lady’, ‘Female Dog’, ‘The Game’ and although the
EP wouldn’t be any less greater had the features been cut out – ‘Your Girl’
with appearances by Qba and Skye Wanda and ‘Follow Zero’s’ with PDotO are some
of my favourites on the EP.
Easily one of the best EPs I’ve listened to in a while. I’m excited for the next release already.
IT’S SUPA BABY!
Content: 3/3
Production: 2/3
Lyrics: 2/4
Overall: 7/10
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