05 February 10
Don't Say No to Nikki Lynnette
About a year ago or so, @NikkiLynette added me as a contact on Twitter. I clicked over to her account to vet her before adding her back. I then clicked to her website to see what was there since I was aware that she was a real person. I then proceeded to spend the next hour or so googling her, tracking down MySpace song links, downloading music I found, looking at Google images. Yep, for about 1 hour I became some crazed online stalker and all because I was hooked on her music after listening to a 60-second sample of her song “Now That I’m Fine”.
I began following her back on Twitter, and would occasionally get a dribble of a music soundbyte she would pull out of her archives and I’m happy to brag that I heard an early release of a new tune that still hasn’t dropped. I’m not sure what it is but I’ve been hooked on her music since then and have been waiting very impatiently for her first cd to release. Today I saw that she’d released this video on YouTube and jumped up and down during the video. There’s breakdancing! and the requisite 5-mile-long sexy legs on all the women. But these ladies are not video hos, they’d kick your teeth out of this universe if you called ‘em that.
In September, GapersBlock set up a local music showcase at Metro. It was going to be awesome. I’d suggested Nikki’s group a little too late for them to get the original invite. And when people bailed, I convinced Andrew that he had to consider her. And while I was trying to convince her that she was Awesome Blossom and would Like Totally Rock, she sent him a message via Twitter that she’d love to play in the showcase. And she did.
I think I love that her music is a great blend of hip-hop with some metal influences, and just enough of a pop coating to make it go down easy. It reminds me of some of the hip-hop coming out in the mid-80s that blended different genres together in their sound. That’s when I first got into hip-hop so of course I’m partial to music with that blended sense. And I won’t lie when I say that I loved that Nikki’s lyrics weren’t all smushed out about guys. I love that she’s not afraid to say she’s better than that when you treat her bad. There’s not enough of that coming from women’s voices in hip-hop, hell in music in general, hell! in society. So I gotta support it when I can, you know? I gotta.
Good luck, Nikki.
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