Kid Sister had just returned from Target when she answered her phone a couple of months ago. This was when the confirmation of Kanye West lending his handsome, grown man qualities to a video for her song Pro Nails, a jam he’d already contributed a verse laced with some great flowing cursing, was still fresh and the uncertainly of how it would all turn out were still looming large. Everything was going to be difficult logistically. Just because her boyfriend A-Trak – West’s DJ – was able to arrange things with his colleague, didn’t mean that freeing up enough time for a video shoot would be possible. “I want to shoot it at a high school. The high school right by my house is super big and old. It’s from the Brat Pack era. It would be great to do it there, but it’s all up in the air right now. He lives in L.A. now. We’ll work it out,” Kid Sister, known better as Melissa Young, the sister of Flosstradamus’ Curt “J2K” Young, said. Kid Sister is like a cyclone when she talks and is able to knock the wind out of you when she raps. She’s on crazy pills, making a collage of styles that jams Missy Elliott, Da Brat, the old school of her friends The Cool Kids, Mac Lethal for his rapier’s wit and a sly indie rock and roll ripcord. It’s all tied together, making a new material that is never tired, just hit you in the face refreshing. She expounds about glory days WWF, when Rowdy Roddy Piper had the Piper’s Pit and Brutus The Barber Beefcake would take a Mohawk of hair from his poor sucker of a defeated opponent (I always wondered how those dudes got talked into having their hair massacred and I like to think Kid Sister still does) in the same rushed fashion that she speaks about her meteoric climb – not to greatness just yet – but to the brink of it, where she definitely sits, primed to become the next can’t-get-enough-of-her sensation. It’s one of the many things the Ice Cream Man Matt Allen and I agreed upon in New York City in October: Kid Sister is going to be a superstar.

Below, please enjoy random quotes from Kid Sister, from her exclusive Daytrotter interview:
“It’s all so exciting. I’m a girl who works at a child’s clothing store. I’m great at folding things.”

“I named my (upcoming) record after Koko B. Ware, the wrestler. You’ve got it. He was so bad ass. My brother and I, we watched wrestling pretty much every weekend. We were pop culture kids. Dusty Rhoades…Virgil was the shit. Dusty, Ultimate Warrior. We were really into wrestling. You can ask my brother…we got them (Wrestlemanias, Royal Rumbles, pay-per-view events) all.”

“I definitely sense that something big is gonna happen. Everyone keeps warning me. They keep telling me, ‘Get ready for your life to get real crazy.’ I guess I’m ready for it. It’s the great unknown.”

“I didn’t even know (Kanye) was going to do the song or the video. He never even gave me any inkling. I was at the movies, seeing Spiderman 3 when he told me he would drop the verse. Then he told me, ‘I’ll totally do the video.’ It’s super crazy for me. We’re planning on shooting the video at the Pro Nails salon where I had my nails done for my eighth grade graduation. It’s just weird, because where I live, nothing cool happens here. You work at Applebee’s or the bank. To have him be on board with the project is just really flattering.”

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