Dunno how many of you remember the very beautiful, HeeSun. I posted her video "Stereotypes" awhile ago. Well, for those of you who didnt believe in her enough to watch the video, she's topping the billboard now. I love her so much. HeeSun Lee isn’t your average Hip Hop emcee. Put up for
adoption in her native Korea at the age of four months, she was brought to
America and raised by Chinese parents in a Christian home on Staten Island, New
York in the 1980s. Follow her on twitter @HeeSunLee. And if you change your minds and want to see the video, click here. See more after the cut...
As a teenager, she became a fan of Hip Hop acts ranging from
Lauryn Hill and Will Smith to Tupac Shakur. All of Lee’s diverse experiences
have fused to create the illuminating backdrop for her brilliant, hard-hitting
sophomore CD “Stereotypes” (In My City Records) that has debuted at #25 on
Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart.
“We are thrilled to see that a new unique voice, that
doesn’t fit comfortably into any of today’s musical infrastructure, is able to
rise up and be embraced,” says Jeremy Castro of In My City Records. “This next
generation is looking for their mouthpiece, someone who breaks the status quo,
a misfit for God and Heesun fills that bill with her music and her life’s
testimony.”
Lee’s story is unique in that she credits not only her faith
but also Hip Hop for saving her life. “Hip Hop saved me from a lot of things,”
she confesses. “My biggest struggle growing up was with my identity and it all
correlates with being stereotyped and not knowing where I belonged because I
was adopted.” She envisions the new CD as a tool to evangelize while also
examining society’s stereotypes like the one that suggests that someone of
Korean heritage lacks the spit skills to make it in Hip Hop. “I have had to
constantly remind myself that I am legit,” Lee says of the battle to win cred
as an emcee. “Sometimes the stereotypes in this world are so big that they can
even get to my own confidence. I may think I’m good, but I can just be playing
myself if society is telling me this is not what I should be doing.”
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