"L.A. is a fresh female emcee. For me, she came out of nowhere. For her, she’s always been here. And our path’s crossing was really all about timing." - ThroatChopU, Return Of The Real
I first started to cover the Brooklyn female emcee L.A. and her music last August before the drop of her debut project
The Presentation. However, it was in July that I first caught L.A. on a track when she was featured on another NYC based emcee ScienZe's
The Phone Tap(e) project. I was immediately impressed and felt that her potential needed to be documented, and decided to cover her music leading up to the release of
The Presentation this past January.
Her debut was big, with a fresh mini-movie video to go along with the project. And now so many months later, L.A. has been featured on MTV SuckerFree and DollarVanDemos, and her work has found its way on to HipHopDX and DJBooth, among many other sites.
People were beginning to take notice and I thought that was dope. But she's been generating a buzz among indie sites long before she cracked the bigger domains and it was fresh to see their acknowledgment of her work. I knew from that first track that the girl was incredibly talented, and her live show only solidifies that. The college educated, full-time-job-holder has bars and a vision. Bars and vision that need to be heard and felt.
L.A. is dope. L.A. is ill. And at the end of the day, I'll always come back to something I wrote about her in November in my column over at RefinedHype: "In a Hip-Hop scene where people only recognize one female in rap (at a time), it’s important that you check for L.A. Her rhymes and thought process and views on music are much deeper than a lot of surface level music we hear today."
It was soon after that release of
The Presentation that she began work on what would be a project produced solely by Cali based Hippie Sabotage,
The L.A. Riots: Mental Fatality. And now after two singles and a fresh video to match, we're on the eve of Mental Fatality. I reached out to L.A. to get her thoughts going into the release of her new project. Check out our conversation after the jump.
