04.09.10 : Rapper Eve enjoys breakthrough, ahead of Supafest at Melbourne Showgrounds
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IF FANS of rapper Eve have been frustrated waiting for her new album, she hears you. Record-company politics have seen Eve waiting in limbo to follow up her 2002 album Eve-olution.

IF FANS of rapper Eve (below) have been frustrated waiting for her new album, she hears you. Record-company politics have seen Eve waiting in limbo to follow up her 2002 album Eve-olution.

Best known for her collaborations Let Me Blow Ya Mind and Rich Girl with Gwen Stefani, Like This with Kelly Rowland and Gangsta Lovin’ with Alicia Keys, Eve was ready to drop a new album after her 2007 hit Tambourine. Called Here I Am, it was finished then shelved by her label Interscope.

“It was so frustrating,” Eve says. “Tambourine was such a big hit. For them to drop the ball after that it was, ‘Are you serious?’ I was never defeated — well, a little bit. But I was like, ‘F— that’. I had to get out of there and get some new energy.”

Now a new album, Lip Lock, is nearly finished, to be released on another major label. “I got to do a lot of it not being signed to a label so it kind of feels like I’m a new artist,” Eve says. “I got to work with exactly who I wanted and do it the way I wanted to.

“When you’re in the industry for a long time you get jaded. I’m back where I can’t wait to tour and do videos and I love that excitement.”

The album sees Eve take a new direction, featuring collaborations with dance acts Diplo and MSTRKFT and flirtations with dubstep.
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