Kid Sister @ Wrongbar
By: Jesse Ship
I tell the cabby to pull over at this new place and he asks "Vat did you say dis bar is called?"
"Wrongbar"
"Well my friend tonight you will make it right!" he replies with a laugh.
Riding high on my cabby's props I strut through the doors of Toronto's newest hot spot located right in the ample bosom of the Queen West club scene. It's lush and sweaty and I like it. By the time Kid Sister comes on at 12:30 p.m. it has filled up nicely.
You might say Kid Sister lives up to her name. She's like that bratty little girl who won't leave you alone while you're doing your own thang. Her brother DJ J2K is one half of Flosstradamus the south-side Chicago DJ team that has been stirring shit up with the Juke kids Chicago's answer to the Baltimore club sound or dirty south crunk. She also happens to be dating Montreal's DJ A-Trak Kanye West's DJ for the past few years. Her first single "Pro Nails" has already been remixed a bunch of times most notably the version featuring Kanye West.
After a few opening DJs (club owner Nasty Nav and Ottawa's Jokers of the Scene) and a goofy '90s warm-up set by DJ J2K (featuring some best-left-in-the-bin tracks such as Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone" and what might have been the Vengaboys) Kid Sis pounces on stage and leads us in a bouncy 40-minute set.
Overall I'd say she's pretty decent and just wants to have a good time. Definitely glowing — smiles nails and all — Kid Sis lets loose some of her own juke dance steez a form of up-rock break dance that is kind of like the Detroit jit and paid respect to the founders of the Chicago house and Miami bass scenes lifting lyrics and beats from the likes of DJ Funk and reworking them into her own style of rap. While filling in for rapper Teki Latex of the TTC crew her bro rocks the mic — in French.
Kid Sister at Wrongbar sure as hell makes it right not that she needs any corrections. It's true the set could have been longer but she's really just starting off in her career so it's best to keep things short and sweet a good balance to her bad-ass ways.
