{"id":38598,"date":"2014-11-05T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=38598"},"modified":"2015-01-17T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T17:59:21","slug":"suckaz-got-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/11\/05\/suckaz-got-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"All you suckaz got nothing on me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Lion Babe; New York\u2019s Motown-fixated dancing queen. This summer, she\u2019s priming a debut album of roaring chart gold and dusty Dilla beats.
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Christmases round Jillian Hervey\u2019s house must be a picture of insanity. In one corner there\u2019s her mother, globally prized actress, singer and former Miss America Vanessa Williams; in the other, her uncle, Vanessa\u2019s brother Chris [Williams], known for hurtling hilarious gangland obscenities around Larry David\u2019s \u2018Hills mansion as Curb Your Enthusiam\u2019s Krazee-Eyez Killa. Count on second uncle Winifred [Hervey], one of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\u2019s primary scriptwriters, for choice Carlton quotes too. And perhaps singer Jillian is the next big Williams hope, as she pursues a career in music as one half of Lion Babe.<\/p>\n

Lion Babe is Hervey and beat wrangler Lucas Goodman, known to some for his spacey, instrumental hip-hop project Astro Raw. The pair met at a frat party in New York, while Hervey was busy scouting colleges to apply to and Goodman was on the decks. \u201cI was like, \u2018Who the fuck is this? Who is playing this? I\u2019ve never heard this!\u2019,\u201d she shrieks. \u201cSomeone said, \u2018That dude in the corner.\u2019 And that was that.\u201d \u201cI was playing a track I made called \u2018LoHi\u2019,\u201d Goodman adds nerdily. \u201cIt was a kinda rock-vibe beat with chipmunk-pitched samples.\u201d<\/p>\n