SERIOUS VOICE comes in swinging with โ99 PROBLEMS,โ a blistering confessional cut pulled from her forthcoming album Tessaโs Daughter, and she delivers it with the exact mix of grit, truth-telling, and spiritual fire thatโs kept her at the forefront of New Yorkโs hip hop underground. The Brooklyn emcee, shaped by the legacy of Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Missy Elliott, and the gritty lessons of surviving her own upbringing, uses this track to push her Stay Clean series into rawer, more personal terrain.
Right away, the sonics place you inside the tension sheโs wrestling with. A low buzzing vocal bed hums under the beat like an anxious pulse, and when Serious Voice enters, she does it with a deliberate, controlled urgency, unfazed, razor-sharp, and hungry to be understood. Every line lands with the cadence of someone airing truth thatโs been building in their chest. Sheโs candid about struggle without ever surrendering to it, baring the uncomfortable reality that being โstill Christianโ doesnโt shield you from pain, doubt, or the weight of everyday battles.
As the beat thumps steadily beneath her, SERIOUS VOICEโs flow tightens around lines that walk the tightrope between vulnerability and defiance. She vents from the bathtub, with a literal space of cleansing referenced in the video, spitting about distrust, exhaustion, frustration, and the constant tug-of-war between faith and flesh. The chorus, delivered in echoing fragments from her son JSWAGG, floats like the voice of conscience cutting through chaos.
Listen to the brilliance of โ99 PROBLEMSโ as SERIOUS VOICE flips the classic hip hop bravado trope on its head.
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Review by: Naomi Joan