A very reliable source from Fortune’s camp say part of the reason for the delay of the the 16queen’s debut album “Cold & Hungry” is because of her unwillingness to reliquish any ground in the on-going beef and heated battles with rival emcees in and around her city limits.
MsFORTUNE: “Man I can’t let these dudes think they got one up on me”
Every now and then, and we do mean that literally. A movement comes along and you just know somethings about to go down in the music industry. Enter The Offbrand. Two teenaged lyricist with real… dare we say hip hop talent. It really baffles the mind because they’re not old enough to remember when there was such a thing, this hip hop. They came up in a time where the art form is on it’s way out. Or as Nas put it, “Hip Hop Is Dead”. Now it’s just about commercialism, rims, rides, and cribs, clubs, drugs and half-naked video chicks.
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Even though the 16queen MsFortune is only 14 years old. Her first business venture has been a long time in the making. Well it seems that way to her. “Yeah man this is hard work. My manager has me reading all these books in my spare time. All types of music business stuff, from publishing to points and royalties. We’re (herself and others signed to OPM Music Werx) asked out of the blue what certain terms mean. Like I could be in the booth and Numbas will say, “What are mechanical royalties?” And he really wants an answer! And we can’t start til I answer that.
-Chicago- We had to find out the whats and whys on Chronic Agression. “I wanted to call the album The Come Up. But of course it got vetoed, he vetos everything! Says Chronic Agression 17 year old lyricist about his manager Chalie Numbas. He says I need a signature album for my first album. So Numbas thinks it should be self titled “Chronic Agression”. But I don’t give up easy so it’s subtitlted “The Come Up”.
-Chicago- We caught up with MsFortune, the 14 year old self proclaimed 16Queen, at a studio session in the Windy City. It was a little rough but we found her. We want to know what the hold-up is on this debut album. An unusually tired somber MsFortune told us, “I’m glad!” I need this time for school. You know get to the next level.” It’s her first year of high school. She also said. “Plus I don’t have all the tracks I need. It’s a couple producers I gotta get on this album. My homeboy Telly from the Glass City. He’s nice. And I gotta get Gutta! Speaking on the ill, grimey beatsmith Gutta Dave outta Toledo, Oh. “Every time I here a Gutta track I start spit’n over whatever little break I hear. Sometimes i’ll just keep replaying the intro or the end of the track”. She laughs. ” That dude is sweet!”
