Normally I can't get really get into female singers, but Dessa is a fricken goddess. She started as a poet and then she started doing poetry competitively in a poetry slam group and her career just evolved from there. She also has a B.A. in philosophy...

Now she's a hip-hop artist as part of the Doomtree hip-hop collective. I'm a big fan of every artist that's involved in Doomtree, but Dessa just makes them so much better.