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"You were born a man and you are becoming a woman. If you’re going to become a woman, act like a lady."

- Lil Mama scolds a transgender dancer during "America’s Next Best Dance Crew."

Mariah Carey, Tony Dize, Lil Mama and Madonna

the music press

tue 5/13/2008

A collage of Mariah Carey, Tony Dize, Lil Mama and Madonna.

R&B and pop diva Mariah Carey releases E=MC2, her eleventh studio album. Blender calls it her "most fun" album and gives it four stars: "Mimi has definitively been emancipated – from her need to decorate every damn song with more octaves than Maria Callas." The Los Angeles Times compares it to her previous album, The Emancipation of Mimi: "E=MC2 is a little better – the songwriting is more consistent, the feel a bit more natural – but it too lacks … artistic vision.”
Reggeatonero Tony Dize drops his debut album, La Melodía De La Calle. The Hard Data blog digs a couple of dance tracks but is annoyed by the boasting and self-promotion: “I hate to break it down to you, but Calle 13 is 500 years ahead of you and all your friends." Billboard en Español says despite some reggaetón clichés, the experimental tracks like "Permítame" will "undoubtedly leave the listener sweaty."
Lil Mama releases her debut album, The Voice Of The Young People. The Associated Press says Lil Mama is not a typical ringtone rapper: “Her lip gloss may be poppin', but she's got more to say than that.” Rolling Stone gives the album three stars for proving "there's more to her than bubble gum," adding, "let's hope she's got a few more years to give us the rest.”
Veteran pop queen Madonna releases Hard Candy, the "kind of album a record company longs for in the current embattled market: a set of catchy, easily digestible, mass-appeal songs by a star who’s not taking chances,” proclaims the New York Times. “[Madonna] doesn't reinvent pop; she defines it,” gushes Pitchforkmedia, before complaining that “nobody involved in Hard Candy is anywhere near their creative peak.”

Lil Mama vs. Soulja Boy

versus

wed 5/7/2008

name	Niatia Jessica Kirkland.	DeAndre Cortez Way.
hometown	Brooklyn, New York.	Chicago, Illinois.
birthdate	October 4, 1989.	July 28, 1990.
first seen on	YouTube and MySpace.	YouTube, MySpace and Soundclick.
nickname	Mother called her Lil Mama because of her take-charge attitude around the house.	Mother dubbed him Soulja Boy when he was a child.
also known as	Mama.	S. Beezy.
the look	Glossy lips and a smile.	Personalized sunglasses and a smile.
style	Ringtone rap.	Ringtone rap.
ticket to the bigtime	Lip Gloss.	Crank That (Soulja Boy).
signature dance	The Lip Gloss dance.	The Crank That dance.
young poets	"I said my lip gloss is cool, my lip gloss be poppin, I'm standing at my locker, and all the boys keep stoppin" - Lip Gloss.	"Super fresh, now watch me jock, jocking on them haters man, when I do dat Soulja Boy" - Crank That.
making moves	Endorsed by L'Oreal cosmetics.	Sells signature sunglasses, dog tags and medallions on official website.
killer collabos	Avril Lavigne, Chris Brown and T-Pain.	Fergie, Bow Wow, Omarion and Tyra B.
produced by	James "Groove" Chambers.	Mr. Collipark.
debut album	VYP: Voice Of The Young People.	Souljaboytellem.com.
the haterz	Blender: "The problem is, for as much as the 18-year-old MC and singer wants to represent her generation, she spends most of Voice of the Young People angrily talking about herself. Though there’s slick, occasionally dynamite production … the lyrics rarely rise above defensive boasting."	Entertainment Weekly: "'Crank That' is diverting enough for three and a half minutes, but most of his debut, Souljaboytellem.com, is a teenage wasteland filled with monotonously looped chants and agonizing blunt-force beats. At least he owns a cool domain name."
webprops	276,442 on official MySpace.	773,621 friends on official MySpace.
best video moment	Dancing in a futuristic world with Chris Brown in Shawty Get Loose.	Flirting with girls online in Soulja Girl.

ball or fall

daily dos

fri 2/8/2008

Lil Mama "gets loose" with Chris Brown and T-Pain in a new video. (via Yahoo! Music)

luces and abuses

daily dos

tue 1/15/2008

Listen to the remix of Lil Mama's Shawty Get Loose, featuring T-Pain and Chris Brown. (via Blender Blog)

Niatia Kirkland, aka Lil Mama, is giving new meaning to "commercial rap." The green-eyed 17-year-old had a massive hit this summer with Lip Gloss, a catchy boom-bap clap-happy rap about the wonders of L'Oreal and Mac cosmetics.

A charismatic Brooklyn native, Lil Mama first started "poppin" in the Big Apple, after NYC radio station Hot 97 put her remix of Jay Z's Show Me What You Got in heavy rotation. Not much later, she signed with Jive Records and has recently scored guest spots on remixes of Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend and Sean Kingston's Beautiful Girls.

Lil Mama's debut album, Voice of the Young People, is scheduled for release at the end of the year and features production by Dr. Luke, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland. The video for her latest single, G-Slide (Tour Bus) could be a sign of what's to come: a children's song chorus and more over-the-top L'Oreal product placement.