"I'm tired of grown ass men hatin' on me."

Young M.A
english (Brooklyn, NYC)
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I hold a lot of truth behind them lies.“ With Young M.A it’s ‚what you see is what you get‘. And what I see is a pretty young person showing maybe not so much of herself but a lot of her life, what it is to be her and how she realates her Self to that. This in itself implies a somewhat reflective vision on the factors that condition her being and the ways sub|cultural gesturing is built around that. While it is redundant to say that language holds a key role in this  – looking at her vocal as well as at her physical wording however, this thought leads to a more complex insight. The route of this goes like: authenticity? No. Yes. As said above: it is about how she relates.

 

But before I let myself be carried away by thoughts like how her ‚who she is‘ already transcends the place she’s in, while her ‚where she’s at‘ again forces her to ciscend back; by thoughts on ‚what do you do‘ with spirits and desires such as expressed by her in a place like that? And with ‚place‘ I mean the locals and the socials she is navigating. Well, what she does about it, is saying: I feel like shit / I love all this. And this is not a quote. And there is no ‚but‘ nor ‚fuck‘ where I put that slash bar. It’s both along.

 

There’s much sminks and drokes, no pimps but ‚Hoes‘ in her visuals and lyrics. Aggression is built on pain as much as it’s built on hedonistic reductionism of desires to their physical urge: responding to this alone will never satisfy. Not to mention the ambivalent ‚masculinity‘ running through all this. But that is something beyond her and her environment. It is something her generation at all stratas will struggle to figure out. She’s not alone in this: #Zeitgeist.

 

On the personal level I sense some tough tension well stemming from norms questioning her Self and from experiences that are hard to be processed. Her brother was stabbed dead in his early twenties. What do you do with that?                …music in parts. I don’t want to follow further up this thread about some psychological dynamics ‚cause that would be shrink shit interpretation and I don’t do that. Because I don’t do that and also I don’t know her. She speaks for her Self anyways. Nevertheless the creative writing after only a short encounter with her output shows its potential of triggering thoughts that go beyond and come back.

 

M.A’s wording shows how much her abstractions stick to the concrete. That’s love. Yet the simplicity is knowing. I know I put a lot into my listening here, and that’s sympathy. Obviously a lot of what she does doesn’t reveal itself to me. Maybe I see things, maybe I hear them, maybe I don’t. I’ll try and listen through the cloth of styles and feel them.      „This is just me / I ain’t trying to be be different / that’s the problem with the game / everybody is something they isn’t. // my goal is the business / fuck seven digits / I’m just trying to do while my brother didn’t //“ she humbles.

 

In a nutshell? M.A runs with Brooklyn’s Redlyfe squat, is in her early twenties now, has two mixtapes out so far and is recently earning and gaining attention from radio DJs and networks. She caught fire and attention with her „Brooklyn“ cypher version of the Chiraq tune (originally Minaj). And there is a lot more where this came from. Her album Herstory is due 2016.

 

M.A the Mixtape (2013-2014):

1. intro

2. Body Bag

3. Henny Dance

4. Act’nUp

5. Girlfriend

6. No Trust

7. Plottin‘ (Short Story)

8. Dear Bro (Bonus Track)

9. Pain

10. Hot N*

11. Freestyle: Bitch

12. Freestyle: Danny Glover

13. Freestyle: Levels

14. Wet Wet

15. O.G. Bobby Johnson

16. Kold World

17. Freestyle: 6God

 

 

Sleepwalkin (mxtp: „six ‚freestyles‘ six originals“, via datpiff, Nov 2015):

1. intro

2. Quiet Storm

3. Get this Money

4. Brooklyn Poppin‘

5. Hood Love ft. Mr Mann

6. 10 Bandz

7. Through the Day

8. Check

9. Regular

10. Ether

11. Karma Krys

12. Dreams

13. HennyNHoes

Car Confessions (Sep 2018):

youtube.com/watch?v=cxQa8xNheLQ

 

Petty Wap (Summer 2018):

youtube.com/watch?v=CT9nKhyCUY8

 

Praktice (Apr 2018):

youtube.com/watch?v=4wAu7KaMYPg

 

M.A’s play on ‚I Get the Bag‘ [orig. Gucci Mani ft. Migos] (Jan 2018):

youtube.com/watch?v=H83pRUE_kJw

 

Walk (October 2017):

 

 

Same Set (August 2017):

youtube.com/watch?v=nl4n8z5E3-U

 

Self M.Ade (May 2017):

youtube.com/watch?v=NZZbCk0Fas4

 

Hot Sauce (March 2017):

youtube.com/watch?v=d7f3IEnfqXI

 

Kween (February 2017):

„too much hate got me to open a can of love“

youtube.com/watch?v=7jt5MchaxM0

 

Get This Money (January 2017):

youtube.com/watch?v=jAFGTOhfR7Y

 

EAT (December 2nd, 2016):

youtube.com/watch?v=GW3gTa-XAlU

 

Quiet Storm (Oct. 2016):

 

 

Summer Story (Jul 2016):

youtube.com/watch?v=BfBFql6gt-o

 

Ooouuu (May 2016):

youtube.com/watch?v=gVf_4Ns3qLU

 

Oh My Gawdd (‚freestyle’/version‘, April 2016):

 

 

Karma Krys (Jan 2016):

 

 

Body Bag (May 2015):

 

 

 

features:

 

(with EazieDaGod) Pretty Flacko (2012):

youtube.com/watch?v=FJn5wmqZPs4

 

(with T-Pain) F.B.G.M. (June 2017):

youtube.com/watch?v=vX7-_aWTgxk

 

 

freestyle, live & else:

 

Freestyle @Hot 97’s Flex, January 2016:

 

 

„Stay consistent. Eventually they’ll wake up.“ See Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlemagne get all soft and excited about Young M.A at the Power 105 Breakfast Club, August 2016:

 

 

„she is very politically savvy“ –

an interview with Rosenberg, NYC’s Hot 97, fall 2015 – chatting more than her come up: