RISKAY
“Don’t play me like a fool/Cause that ain’t cool.” “Smell Yo Dick”
Dubbed the Drama Queen, you’ve read about Riskay in the N.Y. Times (“One of the most memorable underground hits of 2007”) and on Perez Hilton’s influential blog.. You’ve heard her on Sirius’ Howard Stern, Left of Center and Shade 45 channels, as well as MySpace, YouTube and undoubtedly your e-mail in-box. There have been countless remixes and lip-synch tributes all over the web, including one by Perez himself. Comic David Cross wrote on indie tastemaker site Brooklyn Vegan: “If you haven’t heard this song yet, please go to YouTube and look it up.” Jezebel.com simply said: “I absolutely love that this chick Riskay sings a whole song about this because you just know that it’s a tactic that she actually employs.” Vice magazine added: “It’s only the greatest cheating song since Oran Juice laid into his girl for the entire last half of ‘The Rain’… Earth-shaking in its simplicity.”
Newly signed to industry vet Daniel Glass’ Glassnote Records and JMB Entertainment Group of Tampa Bay for management, clean versions of the song can now be heard on New York’s Power 105 and Z100 as well as WLLD Tampa, KQRC Kansas City, KPRR El Paso and KBBT San Antonio, among others. The song substitutes refrains like “I can smell that chick” and “Who you creepin’ with?” for the offending phrase.
One of the biggest viral phenomena of the Internet era, Riskay’s “Smell Yo Dick” strikes a blow for female self-empowerment in the face of cheating males everywhere. Coming from the small Florida town of Bartow, an hour outside of Orlando, where she put herself through college and worked until very recently as a designer of software manuals for the state Department of Transportation, Riskay is the real deal, a combination of Lil’ Kim and Missy Elliott, who isn’t afraid to speak her mind as she reveals a time-tested method for making sure her man isn’t straying.
“It works everytime,” says Riskay, who has built a following in the southeast, performing in both Florida and Georgia, of the foolproof test. “If you catch them immediately, you can smell it on them. But, if your man’s been out all day, there’s no reason why his dick should smell like soap.”
Growing up, Riskay’s biggest inspiration wasn’t any musical performer, but the grandmother who raised her and her sister, along with cousins and her own children. “She was a strong-willed person,” she says. “She taught me to stand up for myself.” As a youngster, Riskay formed a gospel singing group and a rap group, but it wasn’t until she started working with local rapper/songwriter/producer Bigg Baby that she began to make her move in the hip-hop business, joining a group called Blue Chipz, now known as County Mobb, where she was the only female rapper.
Another rapper/producer named White Dawg featured Riskay on a regional hit called “Pop-A-Pill,” and a pair of songs off his Bonified Platinum album featuring Slip-N-Slide recording artist Duece Poppi. Riskay then recorded “Pay Up,” an answer song to the Youngbloodz’ “Damn,” which garnered her a growing following in the underground hip-hop scene in Florida and Georgia.
But nothing could prepare her for the viral success of “Smell Yo Dick.”
“This is what I’ve wanted for a long, long time,” Riskay enthuses. “Every day something new is happening, and it still hasn’t hit me yet. I’m very excited, but I’m still the same person on the inside. I’m just thankful for everything that’s going on.”
Once Perez Hilton posted the song on his site, attention and offers started pouring in. Several spin-offs and tributes to the song have proliferated online, including a skinny white guy with glasses who turns it into a six-minute dirge while playing guitar on his bed and Riskay’s own favorite, an Asian girl who shyly lip-synchs the tune.
Now working on her album, Drama Diary, with DJ Quest and “Smell Yo Dick” collaborators Aviance and Real, Riskay is intent on showing she can hold her own. Some of the songs she’s recording include “Krispy Kreme,” in which she compares her sexual prowess to one of the famed donuts and “You Ain’t Shit,” another post-feminist anthem.
The Drama Queen learned early on, she won’t get her way without speaking her mind.
“I’m very vocal and outspoken,” she explains. “I don’t bite my tongue for anything. If I get upset, you’ll know it. People who don’t speak up for themselves get taken advantage of. It’s too stressful when you hold everything in. It makes you depressed, which Iwas for many years. I had to learn to address my issues before I was able to succeed. I’ve been told throughout my life that I couldn’t do stuff because of where I came from. The only way I could make it was by not listening to what anybody else said and having faith in who I was.”
And while you might not see Riskay on Oprah any time soon (“She doesn’t like rap music… Maybe Tyra, though”), she is intent on making music that speaks to women who are unhappy in their own relationships.
“Life is too short to do what someone else wants you to do,” she says. “Many women don’t have the opportunity to hear these things. They just hear men talking about how big her booty is. It’s not all about what the man wants… It’s about being happy yourself.
“I’ve had issues with men myself.. When you’re a women with a brain, a good education and a well-paying job, a lot of men get intimidated. That causes problems in a relationship. They don’t want to date me because they’re afraid I might write a song about them.”
For now, Riskay is putting romance on the back burner to concentrate on her burgeoning career.
“Life gives you a lot of things,” she says. “Enjoy ‘em and never look back. I loved my life and my family, but I’ve really made up my mind. I want more now.”
And that includes, not just stardom for herself, but sharing her experience with other hopefuls who want to break into the music business.
With her sites set on not just making it in music, but possibly films and TV, Riskay is writing a comedy and has ideas for her own reality series.
“I think I’m funny, even though my friends say I’m not,” she says. “Actually, what I really want to do is own my own Krispy Kreme store one day.”
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eyy girl thanks 4 the add, i was listening to the radio the other day and they where talkin about your song smell your dick, they even played some of it on the air and i just fell in LOVE with IT, keep doin yor thing girl, luv it!!!!!!!!!!!!
about that video you posted in a bulletin "don't do drugs when you pregnant", this was found by a friend of mines:
"YouTube video leads to MARTA arrest Young woman shown pitching a fit, threatening elderly woman on train
By ARIEL HART The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 05/13/08
MARTA officials said they have arrested Nafiza Ziyad, 25, as the result of an online video in which a young woman appears to be threatening an old woman on a MARTA train.
The video, posted on YouTube two weeks ago, has drawn more than 7,000 comments on the site and been viewed more than 600,000 times.
It shows a young woman turning around to yell at a white-haired passenger in the seat in behind her, then standing up and shouting at her in a freestyle rap. She doesn't appear to touch the woman, but in the course of yelling at her lunges close to her and makes a motion slapping the air back and forth. Her moods swing but she grows increasingly agitated.
Other passengers in the car do nothing, with an occasional laugh, until what sounds like a male voice says "It's an old lady, man, chill."
The young woman turns to the voice and says "Old lady? You know what this old lady called me?" then calms down and sits down for a moment before getting up again. She moves toward the voice and down the aisle, eventually screaming and appearing unhinged as other passengers get up and try to deal with her or give her space.
MARTA police have charged Ziyad with simple assault, two counts of "certain acts in transit," and disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors, in the incident that they say occurred on March 10, 2008. She is in DeKalb County jail, according to a statement from MARTA police chief Wanda Dunham.
"I want to reiterate that this is an extremely isolated incident," Dunham said. "We regret that the many citizens who witnessed this incident did not utilize the emergency call button that is ava
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