GoldieLocks

	I did get kidnapped once, by a girl who hated me 'cos I'd been messing around with her boyfriend!

Rap has had many strange incarnations down the years: Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Vanilla Ice, Afroman...now hippy-hoppy rapper Sarah Akwisombe, aka GoldieLocks, is adding herself to the mix. The 23-year-old Croydonian releases single ‘Smash Grab’ on 3 December, and her debut album is due early next year.

Combining the sex appeal of Girls Aloud with the filthy tongue of Peaches, GoldieLocks is set to be 2009’s brightest star. With lyrics like, ‘Let’s go and find this stupid twat, who passed on my sister for a ginger slag,’ she’s certainly a feisty one. As we found out when we asked her some stuff about Lily Allen...

Goldie, how would you describe your music?

It’s kind of really tough underground beats with girly pop vocals and stuff. It’s quite a contrast and musically it’s influenced by grime, dance, electro, reggae and is very electronic as well.

Like Lily Allen?

No, and I’m fed up of that comparison really. I like the fact that she speaks her mind, but I think she can be a bit of twat sometimes.

‘Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do.’ Who have you killed?

I haven’t killed anyone! I’m a nice girl from Croydon.

Have you ever been shot at?

No, I’m not that gangster really, though I did get kidnapped once, by some girl who hated me ’cos I’d been messing around with her boyfriend – it was kind of justified really.

What do you mean, she ‘kidnapped’ you?

Well, not like tied up and thrown in a car boot but yeah, she took me somewhere that I didn’t know where I was going and ended up punching me in the face. I was about 15 but I deserved it because I was a bit of a twat. She came up to me a couple of years ago and said she was sorry.

Do you think it’s justified that Croydon gets such bad press?

No, it’s a shithole! Everyone looks the same – it’s either chavs or Topshop girls basically. But then there is an undercurrent of music stuff and garage was really big there back in the day.

Have you ever had a ‘Croydon facelift’?

No, not my hairstyle of choice!

What are the most offensive lyrics you’ve ever written?

I’ve got a song called  ‘Wasteman’, which is just one big cuss. It’s about this guy who messed my sister around so I made a cuss song about him.  You should listen to it and decipher the words, I don’t want to repeat them now.

Does your mum like it?

Yeah, she does weirdly. She goes around telling all her friends and giving them CDs.

Who did you used to have posters of on your wall?

Hanson. I learned to play the drums ’cos I fancied the drummer in Hanson. He looked exactly like me! People thought it was weird.

He was about eight wasn’t he?

Probably about 13 or something, I don’t know what was going on in my head but hey…

Who’s your favourite Goldie? Goldilocks (of Three Bears fame), Goldie, the drum & bass DJ, or Goldie Hawn?

Goldie Hawn! She is so cool and I love Kate Hudson too – I think they’re both really cool.

But she’s always in such dreadful films…

That’s what makes me love her. She’s in Death Becomes Her, which is great. I’m a bit scared to met Goldie the producer because he might have a go at me about the name.

What, you mean about the fact that you’ve nicked it?

Yeah. People said he is really protective over the name ’cos I wanted to use Goldie as my name but then someone told me that so I had to change it to GoldieLocks. Apparently he’s a bit of an asshole.

OK. What was the first record you ever bought?

Shaggy’s  ‘Boombastic’. I still play that now when I do DJ sets.

Do you get groupies?

There are a few people that come to most gigs but not really groupies. I’ve got a lot of under 18 fans that turn up most of the time.

No weirdos at all?

I got one guy who kept messaging me on MySpace asking me to send him my used socks. He must have been a foot guy.