I am assuming she is the white Jean Grae meets Bahamadia with Young Ma's sensibilities. Video is ok. Looks like they shot this right outside of Nice France in Eze, been there a few times. Right next to the Fragonard perfume factory.
Throughout Hip Hop history, female MCs have typically lacked a platform for self-expression on an executive level. But as the internet generation pushes for a more DYI mentality, women within the culture
are starting to shift away from the male-controlled machine.One example of this is San Francisco native Blimes Brixton (formerly known as Oh Blimey). For the past several years, she’s transitioned from buzzing battle rapper to one of the leaders of Hip Hop’s rise in LGBTQ artists. Taking things further, Brixton has already released a few projects through her own Peach House label. This year, she plans on dropping her debut under her new moniker titled Castles featuring banging lead single “Ask Forgiveness.”
Someone like Brixton isn’t supposed to work. She’s female, white, gay and curvy. Taking her own destiny by the throat and spitting real rhymes like no other, Brixton is more than proving she’s in this for the long haul.
When HipHopDX visits her home in Los Angeles’ Jefferson Park district, she’s literally handling construction alongside her female roommates. The space serves not only as a roof but houses an office and light photography studio. That’s when reality sets in that she’s in full control of her ship. Could this be a blueprint for how female MCs run their operation?
Speaking with Brixton, she explains why that may be a real possibility, along with how her creative and business transformation led to Castles.
DX: I know the video for “Ask Forgiveness” was shot in the South of France alongside the video for your collaboration with French rapper Saknes on “Dis Moi.”
Blimes Brixton: That’s a long story but I’m going to break it down as quickly as I can. Gavlyn and I toured in Europe two years ago. We did a 25-city tour in 30 days. We made hella French connections, friends and fans. One of the tours we did, we ended up linking with a DJ named DJ Venom. I put out on the internet that I was going back to France on vacation with my girl to visit her family. He told me he had a friend who was a rapper who wanted to work with me. So, he linked us up on the feature. I was in the south of France and Saknes was in Loire, which is around eight hours train ride. Saknes had his video guy out there to shoot the video and they agreed to shoot the video for “Ask Forgiveness” as well. It was a trade. It was a dope linkup. It was incredible man. We shot two videos in one day. We shot the video for “Dis Moi” the morning after we recorded it. It was literally a 48-hour endeavor. We linked up on mutually wanting to get shyt done.
DX: You grew up in the Bay Area before you made Los Angeles home for the past six years. What’s the difference between both scenes in regards to Hip Hop that you’ve noticed?
Blimes Brixton: Being from the Bay is different. I mean that in the best way possible. It’s almost a bubble. You don’t realize that the rest of the world isn’t there for each other the way that they are back home. I grew up in such a diverse environment and such a welcoming unified environment where people got each other and understood. I went to public school in the middle of San Francisco where everyone was working class. All of my homies went after school and played with each other no matter where everyone lived. If I went to one of my homies’ house after school in the projects, my mom was cool with it as long as she checked in with parents. Everybody was fukking close. That was something that I missed down here.
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