Lady Sovereign Issuing Public Warning

Tuesday July 25, 2006 @ 05:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff



Lady Sovereign British grime MC Lady Sovereign has taken a long enough break from saving the hoodie and dating her fans to complete her first full-length album.

Public Warning, due for release on October 3 via Def Jam, will feature 12 Sovereign songs. More than half of them have already been released on her 2005 Vertically Challenged EP or as singles.
Various outlets were reporting last year that Sovereign's debut LP would be named Straight Up Cheeky, but the rapper revealed in an interview with AllHipHop.com that the title was essentially a joke.

"People kept asking me, 'What are you gonna call your album?'" she said. "I didn't know at the time, so I was just like, 'Uhhh… Straight Up Cheeky,' so people began to get that impression."

"Love Me Or Hate Me," Public Warning's first single, hits radio next month. Lady Sovereign will perform on September 3 at Montreal's Osheaga Festival.

Here are the tracks on Public Warning:
"9 To 5"
"Gatheration"
"Random"
"Public Warning"
"Love Me Or Hate Me"
"My England"
"Tango"
"A Little Bit Of Shhh"
"Hoodie"
"Those Were The Days"
"Blah Blah"
"Fiddle With The Volume"

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I liked Hoodie.
She's on Def Jam? Does this mean she's signed in the U.S?

yep, jay z signed her.

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blah blah blah, rea rea rea!

Finally! Looking forward to it.

Thats crazy. Shes not even that famous in the U.K. Is she more famous in the U.S now??

she's getting lots of press and has been touring with thte streets. she's going to be back here in the fall touring again. i think they are trying to really push her here.

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A friend of mine who's a publicist in london said she was a total flop in the u.k, but they're really trying to push her here as they've invested a lot of money into her. I love the vertically challenged ep, and like the other songs i've heard from public warning. I told you guys that i met her in the bathroom when i saw her, right? We chatted for a bit, but then she rudely made fun of the toilet attendant's job of giving out paper towels right infront of the woman's face. And the woman was like this sweet hardworking lady in her 40's. I was not too impressed.

i had no idea you met her in the loo...i heard the show at the phoenix was amazing. you went to the state right?

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exactly. that's interseting, she said the show at the phoenix sucked and that the crowd wasn't into it when i talked to her. She's cute and was nice ot me, but a totally horrible idiot to that poor woman. Little chav's got a lot to learn, it seems.

Oh, and she performed 5 songs and was 1.5 hours late to get to stage. Her performance of the song "public warning" killed me though, it was sooo good.

apparenlty the venue didn't fill up until the end of her set, it was an early show so i can see her being disaapointed.

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I hope she doesn't start sucking, i was reading something about her newer stuff on pitchfork and they said she's having to dumb down her lyrics and references for the u.s audiences... oh oh.

Did she say it or did they? Pitchfork - informative as they are - are pretentious cunts.

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