Up in the Air with Rosa Ree

The tunes and the beat that go with Rosa Ree's defiant and self-loving rap, Up in the Air, will draw warm attention from 'most everyone. This gives her, the "Lyrical Disease", the platform to take on the world, with her brand-building phrase-blocks and un-quotable expletives: "I'm a pinnacle". "Fearless." "Nyota yangu inang'aa". And such. Detractors be damned. The band is her truest army, and follows her every command. It marches invisibly, and provokes animated dancing, in goose-steps with her. All delectably.

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She's already perched on the rooftop. So what's that? This petite rebel-girl from the slopes, foot(prints), of Mt. Kilimanjaro has a notion much, much higher. It's something like levitation that she's probably looking for on the way there: Up, Up, Up in the Air. Something on a grander scale; much more grandiose, even. Her strategy? Her immediate targets? Don't ask the Snarling Lioness!