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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Video Sasha Go Hard - "Pretty Fly"

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM

I like Sasha. She can rap and has a gift fot the truth. But while she admirably tries to shake the hardcore image of the Chiraq "drill" scene that she's typically associated with—sick to death of the killing in her native Chicago and mindful of her young fans—her musical ambitions seem to be growing more clumsily pop-minded. Color-flashing Ray-Bans and the sight of an intentionally awkward white guy dancing are a typically dependable visual shorthand for corny a'comin. One show at Santos Party House and she's starting to skew Mad Decent with cuts like this, and the last thing anybody wants to see for Sasha is for her to get Kid Sister'd. Or even worse, to flip her sound and energy completely in order to scrounge a few scraps from the mainstream's table. This is a particularly popular playbook these days, where so many promising rappers are only on the scene for the span of a year—or a couple critically-lauded mixtapes, whichever comes first—before they decide to go full fashion show. You better work, I guess.

But as I said before—Sasha can rap, and has a gift for the truth: "for the bread I'ma fight/and I bet I'ma fight for the rest of my life/tryna get right, tryna see what it's like/to live at the top without the fright." In the words of her Chi-Town bredren GLC: Chuch! Izm!

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My favorite Sasha Go Hard line is "if you mad that I'm bad, then I'm glad that you sad" it's very Dr Seuss of her.

Posted by ryjan on January 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM

i love that song. "take a picture with a frown, i'm the shit shaded down."

Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on January 10, 2013 at 5:43 AM

Don't know what hell this columist is talking about. I love it

Posted by stfu on January 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM

As you said earlier, the girl can rap. I think she's a better raper then anyone from that scene, even chief keef, who i genuenly like. Some of those other guys are just terrible (Durk, Lil Reese). The thing i like most Keef and Shasha are the producers they work with,Young Chop has some great beats on the new Keef record. Absolute P turns out some good tracks too.

Posted by ryjan on January 10, 2013 at 4:39 PM