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Empire ISIS - "What Ya Say 'Bout Dat?"
Posted on September 28, 2005 8:09 AM
Mwore fiyah! Brooklyn! Mwore fiyah! Lightah! Lightah! *gunshots*
I’m gonna go ahead and say that this video [watch it now] does NOT receive the Capleton seal of approval, but Empire ISIS may have received the nod (and the skeet shower) from the Marleys. Her new video “What Ya Say ‘Bout Dat,” filmed almost exclusively on Fulton and Nostrand in Brooklyn is a prime example of how inner-city gentrification can go terribly wrong.
Did I say beeswax? Silly me. Those dreads are held together with 100% authentic Rasta splooge!
She’s far from the first I’ve seen to don the fabled “white-girl dreads” and butcher Jamaican patois, but she IS the first I’ve seen with her own video, and if memory serves me correctly, there’s allusion to her having recorded this track in Tuff Gong studios. If this is true, she has just single-handedly crushed the creative energy momentum “Welcome To Jamrock” had just established. Tuff Gong's gonna go through another dark age because of her actions. Jah cannot be happy with this video.
I bet Ziggy invited her over. (fuckin Ziggy!) The rest of the Marleys are too busy playing “rock, paper, scissors” over Lauryn Hill and the rest of her relatives.
I would say that this shit is reminiscent of Snow, but that would be blatant disrespect to Snow. At least he could flow and had songs worth listening to.
Didn’t this woman come out a couple years ago as Sarai with that “Ladies” shit? I swear that’s the same confused young lass.
The irony is the imagery involved here. I think this video was paid for by the Giuliani/Bloomberg coalition for taming negroes. It’s like a big ass advertisement for “how gentrification can work for YOU.” Do you notice how every problem in the hood is solved by Empire ISIS putting her arms around black males? Apparently all Brooklyn was missing all these years was a few peace-keeping hippies. A lot of niggas locked up right now were just unlucky enough to be born before “America’s Mayor” saved the city! (*vomits*)
I have nothing against cultural exchange. I think there’s plenty that some white girls can learn from the Rastas. I just don’t think they should take their newfound zeal, ganja and skeet-hair into the recording studio, let alone be filming videos... unless they are far better than Empire ISIS. This shit looks like a low-budget clothing commercial. Throw in some cheesy slogan about “being original” and we have a composition with greater purpose than what we’ve just watched.
Questions? Comments? Requests? need help practicing your capoiera? ronnie_mexxx@yahoo.com
Comments
Why does this bitch think she can dance... I've seen white women who can dance...she's not one of them!!! and this bitch is just...super fug... I mean...Wow...
Mr. Mexico...you are correct...all NY needs is a few spooge haired white "Rasta" chickies to make NY a better place to live!!! Seriously...wtf was the point of her video...She has no skills, I mean damn...my ass sounds better after a big Chipotle burrito with that super duper atomic hot sauce that gives you anal leakage 2minutes after you eat it...(sorry for the visual)... and if she could dance...hey...her video would have some purpose...white girl with jizzy dreads that can dance!!! But *sigh* we fail there again... and was it just me or did I hear her trying to sing in the middle of this piece of crap they call a song? Unless that's her "I just got a train ran on me by all the men I'm posing with at the end of my video" voice...I really wonder how many high people she had to sleep with to get them to believe she could make a record...and a video...
W-O-W
Either someone needs to call Mulder and Scully to open up an X-File on this wildebeast, or ol' Iris grew up near a nuclear waste facility.
For real, something is real strange about 'her', although it just occurred to me that maybe Sarai got hit in the head, had a sex change op, got off the crack, decided to switch back to being a WHOAman and changed her name to Iris. That would be the only logical thing I could come up with.
As for the video, I thought these low-budget shitty reggae videos were outlawed after the People V. Terror Fabulous, Lil Vicious and Patra cases of 1995. There's violating about, and an example needs to be made of this disaster. Then again, which prison do you put him/her in? Maybe it isn't worth the courts time or the tax payers money...
And was it just me, or did a lot of times, the patois get replaced by a somewhat altered and kinda thick NY accent? Or was it the whole song?
Where, oh where did you find this one Ron? Did someone forget to flush the toilet at the crib and this was the result?
Definitely a new low for white people.
"representing the streets of Brooklyn"? what streets, North 6th and Wythe Ave?
The Bed-Stuy dreads need to put on their iron shirts and chase this Devil back down Atlantic to the Target Center... or her daddy's co-op in Fort Greene.
better yet, let's take up a collection to airdrop Fergie and Uma Thurman's busted-ass cousin here into Kingston and see what kind of fuckin patois dem tak then.
WHAT IN THE FUCK WAS THAT!!!!!!!!!!
Just when you think you've seen it all here comes another contestant for "I Know Black People(Rasta Edition)".
See what happens when a white girl comes back from a island getaway, has her hair braided,and dicked down by Dexter St. Jock.
This chick is beyond extra. I see she's trying to have a throwback name with Empire ISIS. Was she a Native Tongue outcast?
Is it me or does she come across that she is trying too hard? Her walk was extra, giving a pound to the kids on the sidewalk,even the MJ "Beat It" moment where she stops a potential scuffle between 2 dudes. That scene in itself must have been a dream sequence. I know some cats would've taken that gesture as a invite for "let's get together and feel alright". She is confused from her raiding of Patra's closet to the Ciara matrix move.
Finally, the last scenes of the excess "hard" facial posing with everyone she let hit it. From the ghostwriter to the producer to the label owner to the video director and all of their peoples. This was not irie.
Why is she trying to embarasse the caribbean and the dancehall music genre with this bullshit. She is the only artist( if i can call her that cause she's a disgrace) that fucked up the chrome riddim. I don't know what she's tryin to do, but this bitch is nothing but pure hot putrid rancid garbage who should never in her entire life sing another song. Whatever the genre might be. And if this song was recorded at Tuff Gong studio that's a damn shame because Stephan Marley is a hell of a producer. When i heard and saw this i was like helllll mutha fucking naww. The Caribbean People will "Bun Ha Up Wid Fire" literally. Get this half a penny crack ho the fuck putta here.
Yo, Mex, I didnt know there was a new Predator movie coming out......oh wait, nevermind, its just a corny ass white girl doing the "shit-whine" for about 4 minutes.
Truly the MOST ANNOYING thing I have ever watched.......
btw, still waiting on that Ray Cash video Mex......
RAAAAASSSSSS!!!
What the hell was that? Homegirl looks like Boy George
Rock City Bwoy...word she really did f up the riddim
Who the hell still does matrix's and jimney crickets??? Why don't you just sqeegy and thunderclap while your at it
This is the classic case of heres-my-proof-that-i-went-to-jamaica-and-now-im-down type video
I love the daps 2 the chest...it shows how "down" she is...yea...more like "touchdown" there Empire ISIS
Stylezz...That was wrong...Never insult Boy George like that again... What did him or his chamaeleon do to you!!!
She's like the white ciara...any man lolz
she and ciara should make the movie
HVP: Hermaphadite vs Preditor
Who will win? The fake white rasta or the fake woman?
Yo the Marleys must have been smoking that shit Martin was smoking on when he took the JOG, Can anyone tell me where I can find some of that shit, man I am in Seattle and we got that FIRE but DAMN even the fire makes this shit WACK as hell. Yo Marleys put down the Herb just because in Hip Hop some Famous producers (DR Dre, Timbaland) can FIND white rappers ( em and Buba Sparkxx) and sell MAD unit's doesnt mean you can do that in Rasta land.
okay, why do i suspect she'd sell really, *really* well?
Wow, you guys are really mean. Uhmm i thought the video was low budget but i liked the song. Sure it's not on the same level as the big names but it's not bad. I think she flows well on the chrome riddim. I am SURE this girl is going to be a super star. It's always the same, white person comes up, all the black people hate them, then they get respect from that one person, then everyone else falls in line and they sell like a million albums.
Classic.
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Y0 i just check this girl out. She has been nominated at the reggae awards, she has already two hit tracks, one wiht bushman the other with halfpint and rumour has it her album is being produced by sly and robbie as well as up and coming pirahna.
HAH I KNEW IT! This bitch is going to blow up proper.
Y0 THIS GIRL IS SWEET!!!!!!!!
DEF THINK SHES GOT POTENTIAL...
This chick looks like a tranny.
Hey Dave...I'm not Black...I just think she's garbage...I can see her on MTV or BET and I'd still think she's garbage... She can't flow, she can't dance, she can't do shit...SHE IS GARBAGE!!!
Ok...that's all...
y0 Meems to each his own man. I can understand people who can hate this girl, but i still think she's got mad flow and tons of room to improve. I def aggree with you on the fact that she can't dance, however, this is what professionals do, they take people who can't dance and make them dance really well.
In my humble opinion i think this chick is going to blow up proper.
You heard it here first!!!
She really needs better styling, but I thought she was pretty and has potential. I dont know, but I think shes going to blow, thats my bet on this one. I guess well see...
Ahahaha that was some funny shit. That ol'girl look like a Uma Thurman stunt double.
Empire ISIS mash s up the Crome Riddim better than all di other artist i heard except maybe for Capleton... I think this girl is controversial and got mad Potential. Perfet combination for success
Bless up the empress
I think she has great talent, ive seen her at night clubs in every borough, an she straight up a mash up di place, at least mi a sey that the whole a brooklyn, will be behind the Empress. an for the haters ya'll can't do nothing else but hate of course.
nah this girl's music sucks, wouldn't get no play if she was black..not pretty not talented, won't last
I just saw this girl play in Georgia and she brought the house down. I don't know where all you haters are coming from. Maybe it's the fact that she is white that is offending some of you. Whatever, this woman has mad talent. Fuck all you haters.
Oh and Ronni Mexx or whoever the fuck you are, you can suck my dick. Your opinion is almost as worthless as this editorial.
FUck you
Big up ISIS
Oh and Ronni Mexx or whoever the fuck you are, you can suck my dick. Your opinion is almost as worthless as this editorial.
FUck you
Big up ISIS
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