Greetings from The BAY AREA! In honor of my spring break spent up here I'd like to welcome you all to our 5th edition of Paving the Way to Paid Dues. For this edition of Paving the Way to Paid Dues we're going to switch it up a bit, we feature our first young woman in our series stationed in the Bay Area, Ms. Kristine Flaherty, more popularly known as K.Flay. You may have heard esoteric voice floating around on youtube or even on stage with some of the most iconic artists of the Hip Hop game such as Ludacris and Snoop Dogg. A one man act K.Flay has written and produced her own work as well as rap and play her guitar. An Illinois native and the proud owner of a double degree from Stanford University in California, no one including herself, anticipated her to fall into music. It was sort of a whim, what started off as her just writing lyrics for a friend down the hall has acclimated into a melding of music that speaks to her unique experience. Some may argue that she is strictly indie dipping into hip hop, or just an electric artist riding the trend wave, but her journey and music is not to be misconstrued as a passing phase. During her years in the Bay Area she became enthralled with Bay Area rap artist E-40 and dabbled around throwing versus out amongst friends, but it was in that exact creative outlet that K.Flay was able to infuse her musical influences of funk, soul, indie, electric and of course her new found fascination with the distinct hip hop sound of the Bay Area, and create eclectic music.
The content of her rhymes has evolved from valiant efforts to make her friends laugh to something that offers her a real her a real sense of depth, the chronicles of her journey and experiences. Listening to her is really an experience a couple of tracks that your ears need to listen to is actually a collaboration she did with SomethingALaMode entitled, "5AM" and "Less Than Zero" her voice is versatile and has the ability to be dropped on several genres of music, and work. In her arsenal of work she has been featured on a number of different tracks and has released a number of EP's and Mixtapes, and her latest EP entitled "Eyes Shut" which is up for official purchase at iTunes, simply adds to her impressive collection of work. With her upcoming performance at the Paid Dues hip hop festival, she'll have the crowd entranced with her beats and melodic voice. You have no choice to but to give it up to this young woman; a Stanford alum wielding a double degree, with the skills to make beats and lace rhymes, it's difficult not to give her respect. K.Flay's music is perfectly apt for this "interesting" time in life we live in, and the integration of her music in our audio libraries will only cultivate more openess and courage in all of us. A pioneer in the game, Ms.K.Flay continue to do your thing push the limits of comfortability and creativity, we all stand to learn something from your music.
For The Love Of Music,
QueenieGee
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