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R.I.P. White Girl Mob, 2011 - (Not Quite) 2013

In Memoriam White Girl Mob May 27, 2011-June 13, 2013 A video interview posted to VladTV.com yesterday put the nail in the coffin of this barely two-year-old entity, formerly comprised of Kreayshawn, V-Nasty, and Lil Debbie -- three young women who were raised in the East Bay and made their formal ... More >>

Watch: League510 Shed Positive Light on Oakland in 'Representa'

Oakland's League510 starts off the year with a new video for their single "Representa". Using a hook cleverly cribbed from Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci" ("I put that on my potna, I put that on my family/ Oakland city represent, address me as 'Your Majesty'"), "Representa," which first dropped as just a ... More >>

Kreayshawn: Five Reasons Why Her Friday Show at 1015 Is Free

Kreayshawn experienced the highs and lows of the music business in 2012. Her single "Gucci Gucci" sold more than a half a million copies and was certified Gold by the RIAA, but her debut album Somethin' 'Bout Kreay was declared a consummate failure after selling fewer than 4,000 copies in the first ... More >>

What Are the Best-Selling Bay Area Singles of the Last 25 Years?

Compared to the relatively few big-selling Bay Area albums of the last quarter-century, there's a plethora of singles that have sold at least a half-million copies since 1987. Can you guess the Bay Area singles that have sold the most in the last 25 years? Here are the surprising answers: See Also: ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Kreayshawn's Somethin 'Bout Kreay Sells Fewer Than 4,000 Copies in First Week

Ouch. Global Grind reports that the first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut album Somethin 'Bout Kreay weren't too spiffy. Not too spiffy at all: Just 3,900 copies, according to SoundScan. However, that was good enough to land the album at number 103 on the Billboard 200. Positive spin, positive spin ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Why Kreayshawn's Somethin 'Bout Kreay Is Not the Worst Album of 2012

It would be oh so fun to claim -- as Dan Weiss just did in a post for this very blog -- that Kreayshawn's long-awaited full-length debut is on track to be the worst record of 2012. And it wouldn't be hard: Somethin 'Bout Kreay, which came out this week, is basically an album of nonsensical brags mut ... More >>

Kreayshawn's Somethin 'Bout Kreay: A First Listen

Kreayshawn's contribution to Western culture is one classic line: "One big room/ Full of bad bitches." It's still awaiting its hot song. Her success is somewhere between William Hung and Jesse Camp and the 8th Street Kidz. She's an eliminated contestant without a reality show. From her phenomenally ... More >>

Fall Album Frenzy: New Local Albums You Need to Know

Spin Control: The Dos and Dont's of Landing a Song on KMEL

If you're a rising local artist, it's not easy to get a song played on KMEL, but it's not impossible -- and your odds are actually better than you might think if you pay attention to the opportunities the station currently offers to the local community. Having talent is essential, but it's not en ... More >>

Kreayshawn's "Go Hard": The Oakland-Bred Rapper Tries on Mallrat Pop

After a rather malnutritious return to the spotlight with "Breakfast," Kreayshawn, the Oakland-bred waif who sorta raps, is back today with a new video for "Go Hard," the second single off her upcoming full-length debut, Somethin 'Bout Kreay. So how is it? Well, like most of Kreayshawn's output, it' ... More >>

Bay Rapper Chippy Nonstop on Getting Kicked Out of Clubs and Her Dedication to Lay's Potato Chips

Chippy Nonstop would like to be sponsored by Lays. Specifically, she would happily get a Flamin' Hot Lays tattoo if the brand came on board and sponsored her lifestyle. If you've been following Chippy's moves of late, you'll know that this lifestyle largely involves partying to the point of getting ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Five Things To Sort of Like About Kreayshawn's "Breakfast (Syrup)"

In the video for new single "Breakfast (Syrup)" Kreayshawn the rapping eyelash awakens to find her kitchen taken over by raucous youngsters bathing each other in syrup while attempting to cook pancakes. She promptly joins the party and, with the help of 2 Chainz, proceeds to rattle off some stock li ... More >>

Kreayshawn Drops Video for "Breakfast" (ft. 2 Chainz), Announces Debut Album Release Date

It's been almost a year to the day since Kreayshawn set YouTube aflame with her ridiculously successful "Gucci Gucci" video, and after a period of relative recorded silence, the Oakland-bred video director has emerged with two videos in collaboration with hot Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz. She makes a cam ... More >>

K.Flay's Smart-Aleck Rhymes Could be the Bay's Next Big Export

A Smart Aleck with Rhymes

Meet K.Flay, the Stanford grad who might be the Bay's next big female rapper

Finding the Yay Area: Local Artists Pull a Few Surprises at South by Southwest

V-Nasty Wants to Flip Her Rough Background into a Rap Career

V-Nasty Cancels Upcoming Tour Dates Due to Probation Issues

If anyone still thinks that Kreayshawn associate, Gucci Mane collaborator, and Oakland A's fan V-Nasty was just fronting about her rough-and-tumble background and years spent in and out of juvie and jail, this should shut them up: V-Nasty just canceled her S.F. show at Slim's next week, and indeed a ... More >>

Why Do People Hate Kreayshawn So Much?

​ This week, NYC rapper Azealia Banks called Kreayshawn a "dumb bitch." The outburst was prompted by Kreayshawn putting a link to Banks' "212" video on Twitter, via a porn website. We understand why a serious lady rapper would be offended by forcibly being associated with pornography, but obviousl ... More >>

One Last Spin: A Look Back at the Year in Bay Area Music

Kreayshawn Looks Back on Her Breakout Year, Invents a Signature Cocktail, and Talks Plans for 2012

Kreayshawn is 2011's most dramatic hip-hop blow-up story. After starting the year planning to transition from directing videos for local Bay Area rappers to releasing her own mixtapes, the 21-year-old Natassia Zolot scored big with the DJ Two Stacks-produced "Gucci Gucci." The song's success was ins ... More >>

The 10 Best Bay Area Music Videos of 2011

From Seventeen Evergreen's "Polarity Song" video.​ Ah, the music video: In three decades, these modest clips went from insider promo tool, to prime-time TV staple, to Internet meme-generator. And despite all the online noise and bustle of 2011, a good music video is still a fantastic way to gr ... More >>

Kreayshawn Kicks Lil Debbie Out of White Girl Mob, Basic Bitches Mourn

Lil Debbie and Kreayshawn in better days.​It was barely seven months ago when we watched three young, skinny white girls storm San Francisco's SOM Bar -- oh, and the whole Internet -- with a catchy song about the perils of flaunting designer labels. But now the White Girl Mob appears to be on ... More >>

You May Consider "Firetruck" a New Kreayshawn Song

Trashy as she wanna be.​ Sure, it's technically on a new mixtape from the Madden Brothers -- you know, of Good Charlotte fame -- and it features a guest verse from curiously named Chicago rapper Hollywood Holt. But there's no doubt that Oakland-bred whippersnapper Kreayshawn runs the show on ... More >>

You Can Spend New Year's Eve with Kreayshawn and the White Girl Mob!

Christopher VictorioYour New Year's Eve date?​ Alright, let's talk: How many of you thought, when "Gucci Gucci" dropped in May, that we'd still be talking about Kreayshawn and the White Girl Mob by the middle of September? We're imaging no one out there's raising your hands -- and that's what ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Insurgent Hip-Hop: Kreayshawn, Lil B, and Bay Area Rappers Throw Out the Rules

In Print: Kreayshawn, Lil B, and the New Generation of Bay Area Hip-Hop; Our All Shook Down Fest; and More

From SF Weekly's latest print issue: ​Insurgent Hip-Hop: Adam Giacomini remembers the very first time he heard Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci." Giacomini, known to listeners of Bay Area radio station KMEL as DJ Amen, was eating lunch one day this spring with a local hip-hop manager at Original Buf ... More >>

Kreayshawn Producer DJ Two Stacks on the Making of "Gucci Gucci"

​ Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci" is 2011's most divisive rap song. It's seen the leader of the White Girl Mob subjected to a cascade of commentary about her lyrics, her image, and her place in hip-hop -- although DJ Two Stacks' contribution to the "Gucci Gucci" phenomenon has gone largely overlook ... More >>

Kreayshawn: Overnight Sensation, White Girl Tourist, New Rap Paradigm?

The rapper herself.​ During a five-day promotional stay in New York City earlier this month, a cab driver ran over Kreayshawn's foot. The unceremonious snub came after the Bay Area-raised rapper spent her time in NYC taking meetings, granting interviews, posing for photos, dealing with 100 deg ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Rumor Confirmed: Kreayshawn, Polarizing Oakland MC, Signs with Columbia Records

The Bay Area's newest major-label rapper.​ When your video gets two million views in two weeks, something big is bound to happen, and for Oakland MC Kreayshawn, it just did. Today, her publicized announced that the polarizing rapper and White Girl Mob leader a signed deal with Columbia Record ... More >>

Is Kreayshawn's Success Built on the Denigration of Black Women?

Kreayshawn.​ It's been a big week/day in Kreayshawn news, so bear with us. As the recent Columbia Records signee chats about her favorite sex positions and weed strains with a fascinated blogosphere -- DMPC: Whats your favorite sex position? K: That's naughty! My favorite sex position would ... More >>

Before Kreayshawn: 10 Underrated and/or Forgotten Female MCs

Kreashawn: Oakland's latest female rap sensation.​Last week, around the fifth time someone sent me a link to Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci," I started having a feeling toward the diminutive rapper that was not entirely positive. This discomfort grew a few days later, when she reportedly signed a $ ... More >>

Kreayshawn's White Girl Mob Is Coming to Kill Your Dog

Of the 989,372 times that this video has been played in its one and a half week long lifespan (as of this writing), I'm pretty sure somewhere between two hundred to four hundred of those plays have come from my laptop. In the past 24 hours. This song is a killer. The beat is heavy, heavy, heavy, w ... More >>

The Top Five Utterly Embarrassing White Girl Rap Songs

Kreashawyn's "Gucci Gucci" is blowing up. The video to the song from the Bay Area-raised female rapper, which features cameos from members of Odd Future, is on track to top over a million YouTube views since its release last week. It's a high point in Kreashawyn's short career so far, as she attempt ... More >>