GIRLsChOOL

...that awkward moment when you start to really get into Azealia Banks and begin chatting to peeps how rad her flow is when 'fucking NME' make her number 1 in their annual 'cool' list...

Sucks huh?

Now we aint saying this means ya girl aint worth checking but it still smarts a bit that ever skinny jeaned Top Shop protege is gonna be rockin her wares...and makes us think maybe best to look elsewhere for a bit, especially still when we know there's bare new female UK grime and hip hop stars out there that need to be listened to...

So here's a few of our faves for starters:

LIONESS

Strong, bullshit free vibes and attitude has meant Lioness has been queen of the pack for some time. She's done some amazing drops over the last few years (All Black Winterness) as well some white hot guest verses. This new track, where Lioness shares blows with one of our fave MCs ever; Ghetts, proves she's not interested in slowing down none.

Baby Blue

Piano playing female MC? Really? Well thats what we getting with Baby Blue. Fallling onto the scene as Estelles protege on the now classic UK Rap track '1980' Baby Blue is still hitting stuff out of the park. Check out the future classic Paper Haters sharpish if you haven't already but for now we also liking the freshness of this newest cut from the all singing/MCing UK star

Mz Bratts

One of the newest girls on the UK scene but already showing massive crossover potential. Selecta is a ridiculously good tune, but here Get Dark is the one. A sick as fuck slice of everything thats good about the contempory UK scene. Check it...

And while we're here you best check out everyones favourite new, foul-mouthed, 'this years Nicki Minaj': Azealia, despite the fact it'll soon be throbbing out the earphones of every swag-ged up indie kid in town we cant help but admit its still a proper tooooon! (especially 2.22m on!)

Words: R.P. Stereos