Shystie

Emerging from the U.K. underground urban scene a year after Ms. Dynamite had paved the way for home-grown female MCs, fast-paced rapper Shystie was described as the first lady of grime. Born Chanelle Scott Calica in Hackney, London in 1982 to a Barbadian mother and Grenadian father, she grew up listening to her parents' Al Green and Marvin Gaye records before enrolling on a sound engineering course in order to understand the business of music-making. Following an appearance on pirate radio station Freek FM, she was invited to perform on the Dreem Teem's influential Radio 1 sho...