The Canadian MC was introduced to the HipHop audience at a concert of the Boogie Down Productions group – consisting of KRS-One, D-Nice and DJ Scott la Rock – in Toronto 1985.

Scott la Rock produced an all Canadian HipHop compilation titled Break’n Out in 1987 which featured Michie Mee’s first single Elements of Style/Run For Cover. At that time, she was only in her teens. She then teamed up with DJ LA Luv and they released their first studio album Jamaican Funk – Canadian Style in 1991. But eventually they split and Mee headed to persue a solo-career. For the next five years she toured North America, sharing stages with acts like Queen Latifah and Public Enemy.

Reading different biographic accounts about Michie Mee it seems like she is a pioneer, one of those who actually brought rap to Canada. Only after a certain time she obviously felt the need to search for inspiration in other things and genres. That’s how in the late 1990s she joined the rockband Raggadeath which was quite productive. Michie Mee even went forth after their ’natural death‘ with another heavy metal hiphop crossover project The Day After.

She also started acting and is looking back on a long list of roles in different movies and television shows.

Nevertheless, off the side-tracks and back on the main road she released a second solo rap album The First Cut Is The Deepest in the year 2000, featuring Chuck-D and Tara Chase among others with Don’t Wanna Be Your Slave as it’s lead single. And in winter 2013 she surprisingly raps a feature in the George Stroumboulopoulos x-mas special of Run DMC’s Christmas Holis, together with Eternia and many others. That’s how I finally got to know her.

And it wasn’t to late, considering Bahdgyal Bubble, a track she released this year, aged somewhere in her fourties (hot!) and it’s follower Standing Right Beside Him featuring JD Era, which sounds much cheesier from the title than as a track. Picking up the traces of dancehall and ragga – Mee migrated from Jamaica to Canada as a kid – she pushes power through the speakers like a young Gyal, only so much stronger.

As I never heard of Michie Mee, not until today, a grey december afternoon in late twentythirteen, this is about how much I can share. So please check all the background – informations and sources that are provided in this profile. It seems to me like she’s a very central figure in Canadian HipHop and also a good example how natural it was to be just a MC as a female in the 1980s. Tell me, hat happened to that!?!?!?