[music] LADY SOVEREIGN - Vertically Challenged EP (Chocolate Ind.)

Lady Sov only recently turned 18, meaning the first time I heard someone say "vertically challenged, ha ha ha" may predate her being born. Does this excuse the lousy title?

I had to get past that, and the hooting (she always says "S-O-V" with that rising teenage girl intonation I used to hear constantly on school buses), and beats mixed a little higher than their quality demands. But then, yeah, she's an incredible MC. "Random", with its novelty-song string of quotes from other hip-hop songs, doesn't come close to showing it.

Or maybe it just had so much more hooting that I didn't pay attention.