Shawnna - Gettin' Some

Name: Shawnna - Gettin' Some
Uploaded: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released December 3, 2005 and commercially active through 2006, 'Gettin' Some' was the lead single from Shawnna's second studio album Block Music (Def Jam South / Disturbing tha Peace), earning her first platinum RIAA certification as a solo artist by December 6, 2006. The track arrived during a watershed moment for sexually explicit…

2006 · Mid-2000s Southern Hip-Hop Boom (2005–2007) · music video

2006Mid-2000s Southern Hip-Hop Boom (2005–2007)Mid-2000s Southern/Chicago crossover hip-hop — Disturbing tha Peace / Def Jam South female rap ascendancy

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Released December 3, 2005 and commercially active through 2006, 'Gettin' Some' was the lead single from Shawnna's second studio album Block Music (Def Jam South / Disturbing tha Peace), earning her first platinum RIAA certification as a solo artist by December 6, 2006. The track arrived during a watershed moment for sexually explicit female hip-hop, when artists like Lil' Kim, Trina, and Khia were expanding the…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of mid-2000s explicit female hip-hop, 'Gettin' Some' demonstrated that unabashedly sexual female rap could achieve platinum commercial success on a major label in the post-Lil' Kim era. It reinforced the viability of Chicago female MCs in a Southern-dominated market, and its…

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