♫ Tuuunes

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As for her connection to music, she fell in love with R&B and rap, like Guy’s 1990 R&B slow jam “Let’s Chill” (“I wanted it to be my wedding song!”), Eazy E, Geto Boys, Kid n Play—as well as “the ladies who rule the world,” as she put it—Queen Latifah, MC Lyte and Lady of Rage. While growing up in an impoverished part of northeast San Antonio called The Villages, where she says there were only a “handful” of white families, she identified with the black and Mexican kids from the surrounding broken homes. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler and her mother kicked her out at 16. “My mom was a big partier,” she says. “A really wild, druggie person. My mode was to escape my house as much as possible, so I escaped to a different culture.” [Her] Audience members can appreciate her ability to express the complexities of music, like metaphors, tone and overall message. She sways. She snarls. She grimaces. She puffs her lips, smacks her hips and licks her fingertips. One night she captures the soulfulness of Elton John, and the next, she channels the boiling rage of Marshall Mathers. “They see the spirit of the artist that they’re going to see,” she says of her endeavor. Apparently for Lamar that spirit was a phantom phallus. “The fact that I showed a big schlong just made it even more visual.” [read the full article at Vibe.com] [Peep her YouTube Channel too!]