Madam Madon

Madam Madon is an urban recording artist with a rather different take on things. Having emerged from her native D.C. with a background in spoken-word and battle rapping, she has slowly evolved into the style phoenix she is by experiencing her share of scrapes along the way. Having picked up the mic at the tender age of fifteen, you couldn't really call it serious business until she had a son at the age of 21 and stood on the cusp of being who she was born to be, or simply fading back into her...

Madam Madon is an urban recording artist with a rather different take on things. Having emerged from her native D.C. with a background in spoken-word and battle rapping, she has slowly evolved into the style phoenix she is by experiencing her share of scrapes along the way. Having picked up the mic at the tender age of fifteen, you couldn't really call it serious business until she had a son at the age of 21 and stood on the cusp of being who she was born to be, or simply fading back into her hood as a mere statistic. "Something about Tahir makes me want to try harder" she claimed. Then, under the fine-tuned management of Faheem Smith, she did just that. "I found a diamond in the rough with her" says the former marketing and promoting genius behind Rawkus and the late Big L. "I had been promoting and marketing REAL lyricists, and I got been bored when that died down. She was the first one that sparked my interest in a long time--male OR female. I could easily pick her voice out of a sea of chics." That voice is unmistakable. What's even more unmistakable is the 'likability factor' of Madam Madon as an artist. As one of six kids, and as the daughter of the tenor sax player for SuRah's Arkestrah, she moved seamlessly into writing and performing with a level of finesse reserved only for the veterans. Now, having seasoned herself with countless mixtape appearances, one PBS documentary, one VH1 reality show experience...and one child, she feels there's nothing she CAN'T do. She invites you to experience this candor on her upcoming release aptly titled 'Planet lexicon'. You've never heard an album from a female artist with this level of storytelling. As Madon's addictive cadence pairs with the larger-than-life anthems from platinum producers Terence Anderson and Daren Joseph (Whistle Track, Tokyo Drift), and fresh production talent like DJ Amp C, and fellow D.C. native, Draus, you'll get lost in a dark world of abduction, destruction, and rebirth told vividly and masterfully through the words of a girl who didn't get the memo that imagination is supposed to diminish with age. She entrances the audience when she pumps her fist and chants, '...please stand up and be reborn! Single-file line; don't storm. The rooms of the ship are single-bed dorms...this can be a positive reform!' With songs like the eerie 'The End is Near', and super-infectious tracks like 'T.F.A.' (I'll let the breakdown of the abbreviation be a surprise), you wouldnt expect the transition into the dreamy but danceable 'Shooting Stars'. The style and the message is so 'left' that it ends up being, well...right. You will definitely want to board this spaceship, because I hear it's first class.