mp3: MAZY u gat me
swedish female hip hop mcs are a rare breed, and it looks like mazy is one of the only ones carrying the torch thus far. as far back as ten years ago, mazy put together an event under the banner ‘the swedish hip hop frontline’ with the sole intention of proving to the locals that hip hop was alive and well in scandanavia. a year later, she appeared on a comp titled ‘alla talar svenska’ (‘everyone speaking swedish’), and in doing so became the first swedish female mc to have any recorded product in the stores.
in the six years following her debut ep ‘beats and therapy’ on the czech label bbarak, she has appeared on various compilations and soundtracks, had lyrics published and has also been lecturing on the art of rhymes around stockholm. last year she dropped her third original collection, ‘fire’ on NBS (Nothing But Skills) records. as if her resume wasn’t already rammed to the hilt, mazy – now based in london – has gone back to school to study animation.
in her own words: “my brain gets really bored n hungry for more knowledge now n then and i need challanges so i thought… what would be a great challange and what have i never even thought about doing before? … I can hardly draw, i’s very impatient and don’t know shit about computers and softwares and don’t even wanna know cos it takes time gettin to know and i think all animators are computer geeks who cant communicate with anything else but softwares and their computers- yeah! Lets become one!!”
pick up the fire e.p. in reckless in london, or via knaster (sweden). you can find some other mazy downloads at stockholm beat connection, including her version of jay z’s ’99 problems’. highly recommended!
official mazy site
mazy murdochspace
mazy @ nbs records