Invincible
MySpace.com/invincilana
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Detroit rapper Invincible (née Ilana Weaver) had her chance to get on ten years ago, but she purposely passed it up. The Israeli-born émigrée came up right alongside a certain white rapper who subsequently attained international fame — making every other white rapper from Detroit seem like a potential cash cow. Invincible said multiple labels were on her jock by the time she turned sixteen, in 1997. "Many people were trying to sign me because they saw me as a female version of him," the emcee recalled. She said that one day she got a call from someone representing the indie label Web, which had produced Eminem's 1996 album Infinite, a few years before he signed to Aftermath. "They offered me a million dollars over the phone," she said. Naturally, the emcee was skeptical of anyone who equated her with Eminem, since their lyrical content was so different. Moreover, she was skeptical of anyone who wouldn't allow her to control her own publishing, or own the rights to her masters. "Actually the most hilarious thing was when I moved back to Michigan, XXL had wrote a five-page article calling me 'every A&R's worst nightmare,'" the emcee said. (She disliked the article, but apparently liked the epithet enough to include it in her bio.) "So I started getting a reputation for turning down deals. More labels started trying to sign me at that point."
Invincible had always been a rabble-rouser. Born in Israel — or Palestine, as she puts it, but inside Israel's 1948 border — she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1988 and learned English by listening to hip-hop records. Besides Cat in the Hat and ESL classes, Invincible said her first interaction with the language was "writing down other people's rhymes, and looking up the words." (eastbayexpress.com)
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/invinc...tent?oid=790298
.Invincible had always been a rabble-rouser. Born in Israel — or Palestine, as she puts it, but inside Israel's 1948 border — she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1988 and learned English by listening to hip-hop records. Besides Cat in the Hat and ESL classes, Invincible said her first interaction with the language was "writing down other people's rhymes, and looking up the words." (eastbayexpress.com)
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/invinc...tent?oid=790298
Yes I said it, she's BETTER than EM. She DOES NOT remind of any other rapper with the 'lighter complexion'.
Not only is she a emcee but her focus is on "community" which is opposite of today's mainstream rap's "I am/I do"
songs. So if you are into Shing 02, Talib Kweli, Yoon Mi-rae aka Tasha, Eminem, or you're looking for a new artist,
take a listen to her music.
Here's a video Of Her rhyming at a high school in Oakland, CA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCvB2IpNxHk
MYSPACE WEBSITE: myspace.com/invincilana
