Wake Up: V-Nasty Will Never "Hella" Make It In Hip-Hop

« Back to all posts in MusicOlogy

Wake Up: V-Nasty Will Never "Hella" Make It In Hip-Hop

On Feb 02, 2012

The hip-hop world churned shortly after Kreayshawn’s lift to national attention thanks to some vainglorious Youtube hits and culture stifling showcases that, believed by some (this isn’t my opinion), tromped on racially sensitive grounds without moral censorship and reckless claims of authority. Kreayshawn, like her music or not, managed to swat away allegations, though the emergence of her “White Girl Mob” associate V-Nasty dumped the progress back into the drudge with her profound and open use of the “N-Word” in her music and interviews. V-Nasty has since renounced its use, though refuses to admit any wrong over the issue, and continues to gain notice throughout hip-hop media for every reason besides her music.

She managed to link up with Gucci Mane for their BAYTL album shortly ago that didn’t do much more than get shunned, and besides that, she’s doled out more justification of her lifestyle and asinine ramblings than she has product for a discography. V-Nasty is a name hip-hop knows, though you couldn’t find more than a meager percentage of people that can actually name a song by her, let alone applaud it, so what is the purpose promoting her as a “controversial female rapper”? Sure, she’s controversial, but you can find better talent on myspace. Look her up on Youtube and see how long it takes to actually find a solo track. Not those Barbie sh*t freestyles, not a Gucci track--a straight V-Nasty single.

Female emcees looking for a lasting career face the roughest show-and-prove grounds in hip-hop when it comes to establishment, and without the quality content, all you can really call V-Nasty right now is a time bomb reality star with a short fuse. Sure, she claims “hood cred” out in Oakland, puts out these mini-docs to back it up, and snags a few praises from people like Gucci, though it’s the eyes rather than the ears of hip-hop heads that are paying attention, and without an extra angle to her persona, she’ll slowly fizzle out. Look at Kreayshawn--she’s already beginning to fade, and you don’t catch too many established emcees out there looking to pick her up for a project. Is it wrong to call this whole momentary hiccup a waste of time, because I’m not seeing the positives that are coming from it. They're headed towards the retirement home and they've barely even begun their careers.

At the end of it all, the only thing to come from this is a pipe-dreaming white female rapper from East Oakland crash-landing into the revelation that the rest of the world doesn’t care to see her sling around racial slurs like a busted piñata hanging from a tree branch. I’d say respect the ambition, but there’s no ambition to respect--it’s all jabber, the “I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna do this” walk-not-talk roundabout. We don't know what it's like coming from the hood? Well f*cking tell us then rather than slobbering around about it with these staged interviews and diatribes. Put it to some music since you apparently "got money" now. V-Nasty’s an accident at best, a cartoon, something that never would have happened if a camera hadn’t accidentally stumbled on her saying “n*gga this” and “n*gga that.”

Watch her latest self-made doc: everyone’s willing to say “don’t f*ck with her, she’s the sh*t,” etcetera, etcetera, but how many times do you hear someone say “Damn, I can chill on her music”? You want some real female emcees, hit this:

10 Female Emcees To Know About: Part 1/Part 2