{Kid Sister plays at Neumos on Tuesday, October 20 with Flosstradamus and Four Color Zack.}

Naturally, things move very fast in cyberspace; a few months could feel like an eternity - so it might have seemed a little hyperbolic for the music website Pitchfork to ask Kid Sister herself if her anticipated first album was a “Chinese Democracy-type situation,” referring to the Guns N Roses album that was released almost eighteen years after its predecessor, but the point remained: a lot of people are waiting for Kid Sister’s first album to drop.

The first time most people (myself included) heard of the now-twenty-nine year old Chicago MC Kid Sister born Melisa Young, was when the remix to her single “Pro Nails” was making its way across the blogosphere in 2007 and was aided by a couple of verses added by Kanye West. The song was produced by West’s DJ and Kid Sister’s boyfriend, A-Trak and is an addictive pop song with a big hook in the chorus and Kid Sister’s smooth delivery. It is the type of hit that would be at home in both a dance club and on urban pop radio stations. West’s star power didn’t hurt either and the song found itself flirting with the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts (peaking eventually at number twenty-one).

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