Antoinette

Introduced via hip-hop producer Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor’s compilation disc Hurby’s Machine, self-styled “gangstress of rap” and Queens-native Antoinette matured from essentially only a tough-talking mama right into a more unstable, sometimes refreshing, sometimes attractive, and sometimes defiant rapper whose musical surroundings are equally divided among funk, go-go, hip-house, and hardcore sampler and production snippets.