Lady Sovereign: "I Needed to Stop"

Between 2005 and 2006, the feisty, pint-sized, London rapper Lady Sovereign had about ten careers' worth of freaky shit happen to her. First, she emerged as one of the major faces of the then-hot British grime scene, partly because of inevitable "whoa, British white chick rapping" reactions and partly because she could actually rap. When she came to the U.S., she went through a few onstage freakouts, rapped for Jay-Z in his office, became the first Brit since Slick Rick to sign with Def Jam, and...

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