Her 2pac-inspired "Ghetto Fairy Tales" are less than riveting, although "Take It Slow," a silk-sheets collaboration with Ludacris and the crooner Bobby Valentino, is surprisingly effective.Shawnna is back and better then ever.It's rare to find a RAPPER with lyrical talent and good looks.Then there's Shawnna a Chi-Town repesentative that's holdin it down for the females as well as the niggas. When Shawnna isn't dazzling - when she isn't riding beats made of deadened kick drums and menacing synthesizers - she's merely proficient. The album is tantalizing because it's pretty good and because it isn't better. Lil' Wayne slyly hails Karinne Steffans, the "video vixen" turned indiscreet memoirist: "Back of the Phantom, tell the driver, 'Don't look'/I tell her, 'Do your thing and when you're finished, write a book.' " Ludacris not-so-slyly hails a more well-known celebrity: "Special shout-out to Bill Clinton!"
Her male collaborators seize upon the salacious refrain she all but ignores. In the excellent "Gettin' Some" remix, she starts off sprinting and then switches gears ("Lemme slow it down"), so listeners can catch up. She's a hard-spitting rapper with a keen sense of rhythm, equally at home with a double-time rat-a-tat or a slow-motion purr. So her label scrambled to get "Block Music," her tantalizing new album - her third try - into shops.
This spring she scored a surprise hit with "Gettin' Some," an infectious, slow-rolling track built around a sample of the pimp-rap pioneer Too $hort. Her 2004 solo debut, "Worth tha Weight," included the spring-loaded club hit "Shake Dat," but that CD never caught on either. It wasn't a success, and Shawnna resurfaced as a solo artist, part of Ludacris's Disturbing tha Peace crew. Shawnna released her debut album in 1999, as half of the Chicago duo Infamous Syndicate. Shawnna "Block Music" (Disturbing tha Peace/Island Def Jam)
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