NEW MUSIC | ISATTA SHERIFF & KORALLE — ‘EAT THE KIWI SKIN’

East Lon­don rap­per Isatta Sher­iff has releases her highly anti­cip­ated EP, ‘Eat The Kiwi Skin’ . The pro­ject sees Isatta reunite with Itali­an musi­cian, beat maker, and friend Kor­alle (real name Lorenzo Nada). The EP builds on the recent suc­cess of their  acclaimed song, ‘Laid Back’ , adding to their sig­na­ture sound of mel­low, Jazzy beats infused with cap­tiv­at­ing, intel­li­gent lyr­i­cism. With some top tier fea­tures, includ­ing Awate, Mer­cy’s Car­tel and Lex Amour, this style is embod­ied through­out on tracks such as ‘Dream The­ory’ fea­tur­ing rising star Shumba Youth  and, most sig­ni­fic­antly on ‘Will They Try’. The track dis­cusses head-on the exploit­a­tion of Black female rap­pers with­in Hip Hop with Isatta explor­ing the racial polit­ics and miso­gyn­oir con­nec­ted to this. 

Through her pur­pose­ful lyr­ics which Isatta has become renowned for, we wit­ness her poet­ic­ally reflect on her battles to get to this point in her music­al career. Pro­duced by Kor­alle the soul-filled pro­duc­tion com­bines ele­ments of Jazz and Hip Hop, with the sax­o­phone col­lid­ing per­fectly with her lyr­ics to allow the story to unfold. 

In Isat­ta’s own words:

“This is the most import­ant track on the EP as it addresses the exploit­a­tion of Black women in hip hop, and the explor­a­tion of hip hop in gen­er­al. We have star­ted to talk about the count­less Black female sing­ers and song­writers in Dance and Hip Hop music who go uncred­ited in the U.K, and I wanted to extend the con­ver­sa­tion with Black female rap­pers and explore the racial polit­ics and miso­gyn­oir con­nec­ted to this. People often ask the same ques­tions regard­ing women’s pos­i­tion in Hip Hop, and I ask ‘will they try to under­stand’ the full scope of the prob­lem and then DO some­thing, because the con­ver­sa­tion is stuck and needs to progress.”

The rising rap­per rose to prom­in­ence due to her pro­found and con­scious lyr­i­cism which remains at the heart of everything she does. With a rich dis­co­graphy that star­ted in 2016, Isatta is not one to shy away from col­lab­or­a­tion hav­ing worked with the likes of; Fly­ing Lotus and Oddis­ee over the years. A multi-faceted indi­vidu­al with a mas­ter­’s degree in music busi­ness, Isatta runs her own label (Doctored Sound) along­side work­ing as an artist devel­op­ment and music con­sult­ant for the likes of The Rap Game UK. Adding to this, Isatta worked as a teach­er for years and used her pas­sion for music and edu­ca­tion to mas­ter­mind ‘The Mise­du­ca­tion of the insta-gen­er­a­tion’, an ini­ti­at­ive that aims to inspire and devel­op inner-city music­al tal­ent. The pro­ject has gone on to have been cham­pioned by Kenny All­Star, Charlie Sloth and Clash Magazine amongst oth­ers. 

Kor­alle has become renowned for his golden era, Jazz layered pro­duc­tion and if he’s not adding to his extens­ive record col­lec­tion he is sampling records and mak­ing soul­ful Hip Hop from dusk till dawn. With 5 releases this year and more pro­jects in the mak­ing, Kor­alle has become an in-demand beat maker who approaches his craft with love and devo­tion. Hav­ing col­lab­or­ated with the likes of Hou­s­ton rap­per Anti Lilly and South Lon­don Jazz-Rap group Sum­mers Sons, he has become a main­stay in the scene and this col­lab­or­a­tion with Isatta is proof of why. 

Eas­ily one of the hard­est work­ing people in the scene, Isatta is always focused on self-improve­ment and has an unwaver­ing devo­tion to her craft, lacing rhymes with humour and remain­ing remark­ably con­sist­ent. The forth­com­ing pro­ject ‘Eat The Kiwi Skin’ is a Rap-heavy pro­ject with Isatta mak­ing music on her own terms and speak­ing freely on sub­jects that are close to her heart. Fol­low­ing up the first two singles with this thought-pro­vok­ing third release, she has set the tone for what is to come on this pro­ject and beyond.

For more inform­a­tion on Isatta please vis­it: Spo­ti­fy Ins­tagram Twit­ter

 For more inform­a­tion on Kor­alle please vis­it Spo­ti­fy Ins­tagram