Don't sang it

I lived in Birmingham for a while, and the local hip-hop stations were far more Memphis-centric than Atlanta-centric, for whatever reason. The airwaves were rife with the dark, surprisingly lush beats that backed the Hypnotize Minds/Three-6 Mafia roster, and I guess this was the strategy that allowed that set to flourish: market heavily in Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, perhaps Arkansas and Mississippi, carving out a niche that could compete against the more well-funded artists coming out of Atlanta, as well as the guerrilla marketing competitors coming out of New Orleans (i.e. No Limit and Cash Money Records). I always had a thing for Memphis' female rappers, the most notable and famous of whom is Gangsta Boo. Something about this hardcore woman rapping over these super-dark beats about smoking weed and shooting people gets me for some reason.

Anyway, there was this one song that always showed up during mix shows, and I could never find it anywhere. It didn't help that I didn't know the name of the song, but just that the chorus involved this female rapper saying "I'm the tricky / the tricky tricky / the tricky tricky that you love to hate." No wonder I couldn't find it, even in the age of the Google search, since, in the unedited version of the song, which is called "Don't Sang It," La Chat sings "I'm the bitchy bitchy that you love to hate." I don't know how I finally found it, but it has been a favorite ever since. I had a low-quality mp3 that I had found on Limewire, and I listened to it quite a bit. Tonight I made a wonderful discovery: Emusic has La' Chat's entire debut album, "Murder She Spoke," which includes "Don't Sang It," as well as a bunch of other songs that sound very similar, but do the trick. Check it out here.