Whoring it up on Poe Little Rich Girl
Rap artist Jacki-O makes nothing of her "connection" to the former first lady on debut album.
Nov. 5, 2004
It is necessary to listen to Jacki-O's debut album, Poe Little Rich Girl, in small increments due to its tortuous nature. She represents everything wrong with rap music today.
Jacki-O, commonly known as Angela Kohn, gave herself the pen name Jacki-O because she claims a connection with the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but she is far from the dignified former first lady.
Jacki-O collaborates with a number of hip-hop superstars including the Ying Yang Twins, who offer up their signature, grating voices for background vocals on "Fine" with lines such as, "Damn that bitch is fine."
Poe Little Rich Girl is comprised primarily of songs about sex. Jacki-O's biggest hit, "Pussy (Real Good)," is blunt. After Jacki-O declares, "Pussy pay my bills," she elaborates by saying, "Girl I don't pay for weed/ I get in clubs free/ and drinking bubbly."
The song "Champion," featuring Trick Daddy, is simply a few minutes of bickering about sex. Another blatantly sexual song "Sugar Walls," has a chorus that includes the lines, "It be so sweet to me/ uh huh uh huh/ It goes real deep with me/ Uh huh uh huh/ sugar walls filled with the cream." The song concludes with sex sounds.
The album also includes a few decent dance songs, such as "Living It Up," featuring Odamia, and "Somebody's Getting Fucked."
Jacki-O displays a harder, edgier sound on "Gangsta Bitch," challenging those who think she doesn't have an audience by saying, "Cut the chase ho/ I cut your face ho/ if that's your man I want to fuck him in his face hoe."
On the album's seventh track, the Timbaland-produced "Slow Down," Jacki-O raps about comparisons made between her and other sexually open female rappers, like Trina and Khia: "My ass been fat/ and I never had a problem with my neck or my back." The song also includes the signature cockiness of rap songs, "I'm in the industry now/ even my enemies feelin' me/ they so into me now."
Jacki-O does show a slightly softer side on later tracks, such as "Sleeping With the Enemy," "Ghetto World" and "Pretty." "Sleeping With the Enemy" is all about the pain and difficulty of breaking up. The song is quite radio friendly, as well. In "Pretty," Jacki-O shows off her singing skills. Like most rappers, Jacki-O doesn't have any vocal skills, so the song results in a high-pitched and annoying chorus about falling in love.
In "Ghetto World," Jacki-O raps about the troubles of living on the streets of Miami: "I ain't a little girl/ I'm out here on my own/ and the decisions I made they turned me into a woman."
Overall, Jacki-O comes off as a glorified whore with mediocre rapping skills ' look at the CD jacket. Her glints of talent come alongside accompaniments from more successful rappers and producers.
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