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Wash & Set | Leikeli47

Leikeli47’s voice is perfect for rap. I absolutely love discovering black, female rappers that don’t sound completely animated or too overly sexual. Her unique flavor is reminiscent of Azealia Banks, although I hate to compare anyone to her, but Leikeli47 reminds me of her flavor without all the drama and theatrics. Leikeli47 also didn’t attempt to sing too much and for that I am grateful. Although many of the choruses are repetitive and mundane, like most mainstream music these days, her verses are pretty colorful. I can tell that she likes to take musical risks with production and even with her visuals. Some of my personal faves are “Attitude”, “Don’t Do It”, and “Braids tuh’da flo(w)”. Some of her songs sound so go-go clubby that I can’t listen without picturing queens in full face and wigs voguing for their lives! I can always appreciate a fresh female face in hip-hop, especially one that tries to set herself apart from the crowd.

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Album of Interest - September 2017

Wash & Set, Leikeli47 (Hardcover LLC & RCA/Sony)

Successful entertainment depends upon giving the audience a strong, positive first impression and then building upon that impression. In hip-hop, listeners usually have a sense of what a track is going to be like in the first fifteen seconds due to the highly repetitive nature of sampling and the limited range of a rapper’s style and vocal timbre. Leikeli47 (legal name unknown) is a rapper who owns her first impressions. She is never pictured without her stylish ski masks or her long hair tightly braided. She owns her musical style as well; her new album, Wash & Set, is front-loaded with heavy hitting tracks that drip with flavor. In the first track, “2nd fiddle”, Leikeli47 raps, “I ain’t never play second fiddle for Nathan. I mean God never bowed down to Satan.” Her confidence is clear in her quick, punchy delivery and in her lyrics. In the club-worthy second track, “Miss Me”, Leikeli47 raps about her drive to be great and her frustration with complacency, “Y’all looking for applause. Man I’m looking for summer homes. To each his own. And this is why you always gon’ need a loan; leave me alone.” She continues to build the energetic momentum of Wash & Set in the next track, “Attitude”, in which she choruses, “So what, I got an attitude. Bitch I got an attitude.” Her raps are grounded in reality; Leikeli47 raps about domination, money, and hair. Wash & Set feels authentic and empowering, especially for women. She celebrates her successful female friends in “Braids tuh’da flo(w)”, stating, “My girls just keep winning… getting braids to the flo’, nails up to the ceiling.” Wash & Set is about cultivating style and power outside of the mainstream. Leikeli47 delivers those themes with cool confidence throughout, fulfilling the expectations she sets up from the first impression.

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