Shunda K Is Here To Save Us

Shunda K is best known for her work with all female hip hop group Yo! Majesty. More recently striking out on her own, Shunda K has finally released her first solo effort in the form of a single. Titled, Here I Am to Save The World, this seven track maxi-single is a statement of intent as much as it is a banger. With three different remixes, a radio edit, an a-cappella, and an instrumental version, Here I Am to Save The Worldis a DJ delight of electro tinged, hip hop speed rhyming that is out of control. For the most part, the single is far better than anything Yo! Majesty ever recorded and blazes by with rapidity and a jerky dance groove that's as likely to snap your neck as much as it is to make you drop it like it's hot.

Of the seven versions of the tune here, four are of use and regular listens while the final three are for DJ use and will really be of no interest to the layman. So with the acapella, instrumental and radio versions out of the way, the album version of Here I Am to Save The World is a wobbly banger that should probably get a speeding ticket. The tune features lightning quick rhymes and a sub-dubstep arrangement that's so close to being amazing it hurts. The three remaining remixes are essentially versions and variations of the original. Scripts 'N Screwz, Nite Club, and The New Loud Remixes, bring it to the floor but I would have to say that the Nite Club remix is probably the most fun. Sounding something like a rave remix from 1989 all that this version is missing are sirens and whistles. The Scripts remix, meanwhile, really slows things down but doesn't quite reach it's full potential and the The New Loud remix is a rocked out guitar-like assault. In listening to all these, the thing that becomes glaringly apparent and incredibly surprising is how much this song desperately needs the dubstep treatment. The tune is SO set up for it but there's not one remix; the Scripts remix wants to be that version but doesn't wobble enough the way someone like Rusko would wobble it. If this song were slowed down and allowed to let the sub bass run wild the tune would be a brutal banger of galactic proportions. Someone please do this quick. In the meantime, Here I Am to Save The World hints at what could potentially be a very cool full length record from one of the more interesting and underground characters in hip hop. Here's hoping, that we get ten or eleven more songs like this one!