Album Review: Ladi6 — ‘Time Is Not Much’

The words “female MC” and “New Zealand” do not sit easily together, a pre-conception that this offering does little to dispel. Opening track ‘Give Me The Light’ presents rhymes such as “spittin’ lyrics at the drop of a hat, it’s like this, it’s like that” – Lauryn Hill it ain’t.

Bizarrely winning New Zealand’s Best Urban/Hip Hop Album Award, over here it would be an embarrassment even on Britain’s Got Talent. Rhyme crime exhibit B, on ‘So Far’: “All I wanna do is be with you. You might not believe it but it’s true” – perlease! Slick production cannot mask its teen pop nature; and the violent twist of ‘Jackknife’ makes it genuinely disturbing.