Before M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" took off, Lady Sovereign was the U.K. gal MC set to blow up the U.S. — which she did for a minute in 2006 with "Love Me or Hate Me." Her second LP rewrites her script with amusingly out-of-character club pop and more emo-rap introspection. But producer Medasyn's beats are uneven, and so is Sov's hood-rat humor: weak on what should be a layup college-pub rant, inexplicable on a song about sex with food. "I feel a little tired," she chants at one point. Get the girl a Red Bull, pronto.

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WILL HERMES

(Posted: Apr 1, 2009)