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fave it Rap | R&B Rap mix
16 tracks | 51 minutes
Released Jul 2006
on RO Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:10 Intro lyrics BUY MP3 00:10 Intro lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:10 Intro
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 Hate It or Love It lyrics BUY MP3 04:15 Hate It or Love It lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:15 Hate It or Love It
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 Try It lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 Try It lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 Try It
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:51 Aint Ready lyrics BUY MP3 03:51 Aint Ready lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:51 Aint Ready
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 Lookin' At lyrics BUY MP3 03:39 Lookin' At lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:39 Lookin' At
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:50 We Thuggin lyrics FREE 02:50 We Thuggin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:50 We Thuggin
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:44 Drumline lyrics BUY MP3 04:44 Drumline lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:44 Drumline
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:48 Text lyrics BUY MP3 01:48 Text lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:48 Text
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 Booty lyrics BUY MP3 03:50 Booty lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:50 Booty
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:38 Double lyrics BUY MP3 03:38 Double lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:38 Double
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 Sucka lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 Sucka lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 Sucka
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 I'ma Star lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 I'ma Star lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 I'ma Star
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 Last Week lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 Last Week lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 Last Week
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:27 Curious lyrics BUY MP3 03:27 Curious lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:27 Curious
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 My Buddy lyrics BUY MP3 03:03 My Buddy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 My Buddy
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:58 Internal Segregation lyrics BUY MP3 01:58 Internal Segregation lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:58 Internal Segregation
Girl on girl action? One of the smartest Female rappers to emerge in years. Fans of VH1 might recognize JenRO from the show "My Coolest Years". What's striking about Bay Area's JenRO, is her inclination to mix the different sides of her personality.
Bio / Background
JenRO is a recognizable figure in her South San Francisco neighborhood: navy-blue bandana folded over her forehead, tattoo of the Golden Gate Bridge scrawled across her right forearm, pants baggy enough to hide her slight, 5'3" frame. She answers her cell phone with the sharpness and urgency of a numbers runner, spitting her habitual greeting three times in a row: "What's the deal, what's the deal, what's the deal?"
"Typical San Francisco-reared gangstress" might be your first impression of JenRO, until you see the random collection of objects scattered around her bedroom: a furry zebra-striped bedspread, a Pride calendar with dates scribbled in permanent marker, a desk cluttered with cologne, amps, lava lamps, empty Pueblo Viejo bottles, CDs from Jen's favorite artists in rap, merengue, and reggaeton.
↓ more ↓Most noticeable of all, though, are the baby-blue walls covered with images of the standard-bearers of West Coast gangsta rap: Equipto, Snoop Dogg, Playa Rae, Tupac, San Quinn, Messy Marv, Killa Tay, and – larger than all of them – her name spray-painted in black graffiti letters.
It's not unusual for a 21-year-old newbie MC to situate herself in a pantheon of big names. What's striking about JenRO, though, is her inclination to mix the different sides of her personality, making the seemingly disparate worlds she inhabits – queer, Latina, gangsta – all of a piece. On her debut album, "Hate it or Love it," which is dropping the end of July 2006, she spits lyrics about everything from street hustles to hooking up with fly girls. Watching her take the stage in settings as far removed from each other as San Francisco Pride and San Quentin prison – where Jen has performed with the nonprofit anti-gang organization United Playaz – you wonder how easy it is for a queer female artist to embrace the contradictions of her sexuality and her gangsta consciousness, and express them in a genre whose penchant for misogynistic and homophobic lyrics seems like a prohibition against women in general, and queer women in particular. But JenRO enjoys pushing the limits of the medium, and she looks at the labels others might use to describe her with a blend of ambivalence and disregard. Ultimately, she insists, "I choose to say who I really am." And if her honesty means she can't front like a mack daddy, she's not worried – she's got plenty more to say.
www.Jenro.net
(Edited From Bitch Mag)
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