HipHopDX Premiere: 21-year-old Reema Major left her homeland of Sudan during the war and sought refuge in Toronto, Canada as a child. At 16 years old, after appearing on the 2010 BET Awards cypher, she signed with Interscope with the encouragement of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.
Five years later, she has a healthy amount of material under her belt and now reemerges with a new lyric video for “AK47,” which hails from Reema’s debut album, LegenDiary. The song is a first person confessional from the perspective of a gun.
“I partially did it as a homage to Nas,” Reema explained in a press release. “The beat was the gasoline that resonated with me. The flame was the ideas that came after that. I’m from a place that has been plagued with war. And here in the America, we’ve been experiencing plenty of publicized instances of police violence. So this is my commentary on those situations.”
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“AK47” puts the proverbial spotlight on her lyrical prowess and marks her clear intent on ripping down any stereotypes surrounding the female MC. Listen above.
