Long Live the early 90s!!! Conscious Daughters

The Conscious Daughters, what a name, and what smooth beat... this track is an ode to the days where female rappers were valued as rappers, not as skirts / hot ass. The duo, Carla "CMG" Green and the late Karryl "Special One" Smith, both have deep voices tonally and dress in baggy pants and jackets, often colour coordinated. Hardcore rap, these ladies rap about real socio-political issues on their album Ear to the Street. For example, "Shitty Situation" angrily describes the plight of a young single mother who gets no support from the baby's father, while "Wife of a Gangster" paints a sobering picture of the violent world that a criminal's wife faces on a daily basis. "We Roll Deep," however, is memorable not because of its lyrics but because of its effective sampling of a Lonnie Liston Smith jazz-pop instrumental from the early 1980s. The Smith sample brings a taste of acid jazz to the CD, but make no mistake: Ear to the Street is a hardcore rap album first and foremost." (see review from All Music).