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Kid Sister: tomorrow's pop star today
I heart Kid Sister. The burgeoning Chicago rapstress has gone from underground upstart to the next face of inner city pop in record time. As part of the new Chi-town scene alongside the likes of the Cool Kids and DJ duo Flosstradamus (featuring Kid Sis’s little brother J2K), the girl born Melissa Young has in three short years elevated her game tremendously.
Seeing her perform at SXSW this year, imagine my excited surprise when L.A. rap legend Ice Cube rolled in with a posse. Cube and his crew posted up right next to me, watched Kid Sister do her set, and then promptly left. So don’t you be surprised if she pops up in one of the revenue-generating family films that Cube’s been making lately.
At this year’s Coachella, Kid Sister showed that she’s definitely ready for prime time. With a supporting trio of prepubescent girl dancers in brightly colored dresses and her man DJ A-Trak on the turntables, she put on a crowd-moving show that’s already transcended any kind of ‘hipsterism’ and is ready to carve out a genuine career in the merciless music industry.
Running through tunes like “Beeper” and her hit “Pro Nails, Kid Sis simply knocked it out of the park. Possibly one of the sleeper sets of Coachella ’08. Get to know her now before you have to hear Ryan Seacrest tell you about it later.
—Scott T. Sterling
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