Red Ken would go green at the sight of SummerStage in post-Rudy Giuliani Central Park. New York's weekly free mini-festival throngs pleasantly with clean, exquisitely mannered urbanites fully representing the city's multi- cultural mix. Some frug unself- consciously to the DJ's vintage party hip-hop, others sip wine while luxuriating on picnic rugs arranged in view of the main stage.
It's like Glyndebourne, with loud shorts and scratching.
But this cosy utopia is soon to be shattered by the hottest and most iconoclastic act in rap. It's Def Jam's latest signing, Jay-Z's new protege, who's collaborating with Missy Elliott and starring in US cellphone giant Verizon's forthcoming $9.5m ad campaign. Her name is Louise Harman. She's 20 years old, from Wembley in north London, and better known as Lady Sovereign.
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