Hip-hop

Stephanie McKay has been waiting to tell it like it is for quite some time now. The Bronx native has been a voice on the rise, putting in work with Brooklyn Funk Essentials, a well known acid jazz collective from 1994 to 2001 after being part of Promise, a girl group that never saw the light on Arista Records. Bolstered by backup singing appearances on albums by Tricky and Talib Kweli, she went on to live in the U.K., releasing her debut album, McKay, in 2003 which was produced by Geoff Barrow of Portishead. Now back stateside, she’s ready to release her American debut but not before giving us an appetizer with her self-titled EP.