ms dynamite - the jump off freestyle

nobody seemed to take any interest in it, but the uk rmx of ludacris' "southern hospitality" was hot like fire - especially the ms dynamite verse, where she sounds ready to burst from crazy superthug dancehall energy and just being on that beat. i would get mad excited being on "southern hospitality" too, even if i was playing fruity loops synth or something. now here she is riding another widely-praised super-producer beat - so what kind of shitty-ass flow is this?? "i'm still the voice of the youth/i speak the truth/that's why the press don't like me." it's all plain and smoothed out with no deep-ragga-voice/pretty-twee-voice contrast! possible reasons for this lameness:

1) "the jump off" is a terrible beat. for real, it is one of those beats you can convince yourself is hot without ever wanting to listen to it or dance to it. just because it has some clapping or whatever and it's timbaland! it's also fucking terrible for all mcs! it has already sucked the life out of lil kim and ms dynamite is its next victim.

2) dy is changing her flow for american headz because they can only feel plain-speaking, sensible flows and they don't want any aggro dancehall vibes (like sean paul) (?!?!) (there's also a rmx of "dy-na-mi-tee" with nas on the guest verse circulating on american mix-cds, thankfully with no bizzare concession to an imaginary conservative yank audience.)

3) maybe she has been like this for ages, i couldn't be bothered to listen to a little deeper all the way through. there is such a thing as loving salaam remi too much!

4) it's just a freestyle to tide things over till she gets some official stuff out and i'm taking it way too seriously.