The Godmother of Hip Hop

Bahamadia is one of the most underrated MCs in all of hip hop. She hails from west Philly and she's been around since the Golden Age of hip hop. I personally found her through Guru's Gang Starr Foundation. She's featured in a song with Guru on his Vol. 2 Jazz Matazz album. That track is dope as it gets. It's called Respect the Architect.

Her debut album Kollage (1996) is so bad ass it make rappers nowadays sound like ice cream truck music. Here's some links to a few of the best tracks on that CD.

For spontaneity click here

For wordplay click here

For gangsta shit click here

For even MORE gangsta shit click here


She's still making music and she's still highly underrated. She's made music with many notable hip hop acts like The Roots, Talib Kweli, Jedi Mind Tricks, and (my favorite) Mr. Lif. She's pretty involved with the NGE crowd, so she speaks about pretty profound shit sometimes. Word is bond, son. You can call her 'BB Queen'.

Check out her mad wise and winding wordplay with ridiculous vocabulary mastery.

Click Here to hear one of her first tracks (FRESH)