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KEL Female Rapper : Smoking hot debut or just a flash in the pan?

Posted by NollywoodMohits on September 3, 2009 at 11:30pm
After a long wait, CAPital Hill Music's premiere artist, Kel has finally released her debuted album. Stepping into the once spacey female rap arena, the young femcee has a lot to prove, both due to the public's anticipation and the natural scepticism that greets lady rappers.The Investment is a solid debut with competent rhymes and decent beats but at 15 songs long (an Intro, Outro and two skits make 19 tracks in total), the album features a lot of unnecessary filler. Also, with 22 guest artists (album producer, Tha Suspect and Illbliss appear twice each), it could be mistaken for a compilation CD. However, on the songs where Kel shines, which, thankfully, are quite a few, she shows a lot of promise, with the potential to get better as her career advances. A regular complaint about rap music is you can't hear what is being said but Kel's sharp, decipherable lyrics takes care of that issue. This lets you pick out her intelligent wordplay but sadly, also exposes forced bars on certain tracks.With similar sounding rhyme structure throughout the set, there's a mono-flow but it works. She's found her niche and is craftily carving away at it. The back and forth rhymes with Six on "Need you in my Life" make for an interesting cat-and-mouse love story but Darey steals the show with the simple but impressive hook. "Boy meets Girl" exhibits her vulnerability and SLK's vocals are a fitting complement to Kel's ‘emo rap.' The playful artist has quite a number of love songs which suggests a sensitive girl underneath all the posturing.The Illbliss, Tha Suspect and Uchie assisted "Dem Don Dey Move" should be lighting up dance floors everywhere in due time while "Nobody Else" featuring Shank and Tha Suspect, as well as the Durella collabo, "Omo Yapayaski" should follow suit. Then there's the feel good, positive attitude up tempo treat, "Turn by Turn" featuring Wizkid and YQ. It is the type of song that crosses the age divide and appeals across generations.The lead singles "Waa Wa Alright" and "Too Fine" are the stand outs but the sleeper hit has to be the album ending "Sitting on Top" featuring the ever rising Jesse Jagz and Waje. The trio do justice to Jagz's breezy melody, with his and Kel's verses hitting hard and Waje's singing taking it up another notch.All in all, barring a few missteps, this album is time and money well invested and at 23, there is enough room to grow.
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