Jentina, "Bad Ass Strippa"
May 21, 2004 22:18:02 GMT -5
Post by George Tropicana on May 21, 2004 22:18:02 GMT -5
Got an email about a new artist named Jentina. She sounds like a British Sarai. I like her name.
www.jentina.co.uk/
Two things you'll notice straight away about 19 year old Jentina.
First, she's gorgeous, with the kind of natural good looks that stop
traffic. Second, she's a real personality with a passion for the
music she's making, not another pop puppet with nice hair and teeth
and nothing underneath.
She grew up listening to Nas, Biggie and Tupac and fell in love with
hip hop. She would spend hours as a kid trying to write lyrics of her
own. So when she finally decided to sort her life out, she knew music
would be the key. She moved to London and got a job in the hip Soho
clothes store/gallery Zoltar The Magnificent. She would stand behind
the lcounter with her laptop making beats and "just
wishing". A chance meeting and one 30 minute rap later, her
manager invited Jentina to the studio and the rest is the stuff that
dreams are made of.
Jentina's debut single, "Bad Ass Strippa" is an lesson in
pure ttitude and low-end funk and one of the most accomplished debuts
you are likely to hear for years!! With New York City's very own
legend Jimmy Douglas on production duties, Jentina's whispered chorus
and the warm bass that drips out of the speakers propels the track
into the realms of the classic. Throw in an O'Jays 'For The Love Of
Money' sample which could hardly exemplify the song's attitude more
directly, and you have a speaker-quakingly fine record that will
sound just as at home on daytime radio as in the underground clubs.
BAD ASS STRIPPA is released on June 21st.
www.jentina.co.uk/
Two things you'll notice straight away about 19 year old Jentina.
First, she's gorgeous, with the kind of natural good looks that stop
traffic. Second, she's a real personality with a passion for the
music she's making, not another pop puppet with nice hair and teeth
and nothing underneath.
She grew up listening to Nas, Biggie and Tupac and fell in love with
hip hop. She would spend hours as a kid trying to write lyrics of her
own. So when she finally decided to sort her life out, she knew music
would be the key. She moved to London and got a job in the hip Soho
clothes store/gallery Zoltar The Magnificent. She would stand behind
the lcounter with her laptop making beats and "just
wishing". A chance meeting and one 30 minute rap later, her
manager invited Jentina to the studio and the rest is the stuff that
dreams are made of.
Jentina's debut single, "Bad Ass Strippa" is an lesson in
pure ttitude and low-end funk and one of the most accomplished debuts
you are likely to hear for years!! With New York City's very own
legend Jimmy Douglas on production duties, Jentina's whispered chorus
and the warm bass that drips out of the speakers propels the track
into the realms of the classic. Throw in an O'Jays 'For The Love Of
Money' sample which could hardly exemplify the song's attitude more
directly, and you have a speaker-quakingly fine record that will
sound just as at home on daytime radio as in the underground clubs.
BAD ASS STRIPPA is released on June 21st.
