Uffie =HardCore?!

Uffie is the newest gangster rap pop punk star from Paris via Miami as in Florida. She sounds more like a 18 year old Peaches than Lady Sov. I like her style. It kind of reminds of that one scene from “Coming to America” when those two twins start free stylin and start rappin about “My name is Peahces, and I’m here to say, all the DJ, want to feel my breasts…” yeah, anyway….. She is pretty blatant and I’ve seen pictures of her and Sebastian from DFA 1979. She was discovered when she left Miami when she was 15 and decided to live w/her dad in Paris. Ed Banger discovered her and as they say, the rest is history. Read this short snippet from, and BTW, did I mention she’s kinda hawt?!?

Fader Magazine

In a more explicit extension of this trans-genre breeding, Ed Banger may have found pop promise in their latest signee, 18-year-old cutesy rapper Uffie. Raised in Miami (with a brief stint in Hong Kong) as Anna Catherine Hartley, she was 15 when she came to visit her father in Paris and decided to stay. Eventually she began dating DJ and musician Feadz, who shared her love of crunk and other regional mutations of southern hip-hop. Earlier this year they recorded “Pop The Glock”—a lyrical riff on Audio Two’s “Top Billin” done in a fake English accent—and posted it on her MySpace page, where it quickly became a download sensation. Uffie has since released her Mr Oizo-produced anthem “Ready To Uff,” cultivating a sound of Euro bubblegum booty bass that is heavy on tough talk but light on actual threat. Predictably, suitors from Steve Aoki to Pharrell Williams have expressed interest. Though she was already friendly with Winter when she joined the label, Uffie admits she’s surprised how quickly the Ed Banger family accepted her. “First I felt kind of weird, because I was like, I just made a stupid track, I don’t know if I belong in the artist community,” she says. “But everyone is really encouraging.” As a sign of just how fresh from the oven her career is, when Uffie learned the day before her gig at the Elysée Montmartre that she was scheduled for 35 minutes instead of her usual 20, there was a brief crisis where she and Feadz considered recording three new songs that night, just so they’d have enough material to play. Following Winter’s advice, they stuck with their usual set and Uffie came to the stage in high-tops and a black baby doll dress with gray spandex underneath. Though she couldn’t quite pull off the sass that a transcript of her banter would suggest, when she asked the crowd if they were “ready to fuck,” she got all the screams you’d expect.

Uffie-Ready to Uff (produced by Mr.Oi)

Uffie-Pop the Glock (original mix)