Yo! Majesty is an American

United States

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 hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

 group consisting of rapper Shunda K

Shunda K

Lashunda Nicole Flowers, better known as Shunda K, is an American MC whose songs are noted both for their use of spiritual and sexually explicit lyrics.-Yo Majesty 1998 - 2009:...

 and singer Jwl B, produced by UK-based electro group HardfeelingsUK.

Yo! Majesty was mentioned as one of the 'Top 11 new bands of 2008' by NME

NME

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magazine as well as one of the '25 Most Exciting Bands In America'.

Biography

Yo! Majesty's current members are Windy Baynham, who goes by Jwl B; and Shon Burt, stage name Shon B. Formerly the group also included LaShunda Flowers, known as Shunda K

Shunda K

Lashunda Nicole Flowers, better known as Shunda K, is an American MC whose songs are noted both for their use of spiritual and sexually explicit lyrics.-Yo Majesty 1998 - 2009:...

, who left the band following arguments about money. The group members are openly lesbian

Lesbian

Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

 and Christian

Christian

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; however, Shunda K was previously married to a man. Their sound is a hybrid of crunk

Crunk

Crunk is a music style that originated in Memphis, Tennessee in the mid-to-late 1990s and gained mainstream success around 2003–2004. Performers of crunk music are sometimes referred to as crunksters. An archetypal crunk track most frequently uses a drum machine rhythm, heavy bassline, and...

, Baltimore club music, and electro, and they have garnered comparisons to punk

Punk rock

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 for their defiance of labels and creation of new sounds.

Rappers Shunda K

Shunda K

Lashunda Nicole Flowers, better known as Shunda K, is an American MC whose songs are noted both for their use of spiritual and sexually explicit lyrics.-Yo Majesty 1998 - 2009:...

 and Shon B started out as a duo named Yeah Majesty before they were rounded out circa 2001 by gospel-raised vocalist Jwl B. They started collaborating with London-based electronica duo HardfeelingsUK (David Alexander and Richard Winstanley), who supplied Yo! Majesty with their electro-rap club beats, in 2002. After a hiatus during Shunda K's marriage, Yo! Majesty regrouped. Once they established a name for themselves on the underground club circuit, both in the U.S. and the UK, Yo! Majesty self-released their first official release, the Yo EP, in 2006.

They "made a splash" at SXSW in 2007 and that year toured alongside CSS and Gossip

Gossip (band)

Gossip is a three-piece American indie rock band formed in 1999. The band consists of singer Beth Ditto, guitarist Brace Paine and drummer Hannah Blilie. After releasing several recordings, the band broke through with their 2006 studio album, Standing in the Way of Control . A follow-up, Music for...

. Yo! Majesty has also toured with Peaches

Peaches (musician)

Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...

 and was featured in her parody video of The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas

The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...

' "My Humps

My Humps

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" called "My Dumps" The group signed with Domino Records in 2007, and the label released an EP and full-length record by the band in 2008, which included a track produced by Basement Jaxx

Basement Jaxx

Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...

. On June 16, 2009 Shunda K announced that she parted ways with Domino Records. She immediately released 42 new tracks for free stating "Domino didn’t move quickly enough for me!"

Albums

Year	Album	Record Label
2006	Yo EP	Out There
2008	Kryptonite Pussy EP	Domino Records
2008	Futuristically Speaking... Never Be Afraid	Domino Records

Appears On

Year	Song	Album	Record Label
2008	"Pony Girl"	"Dub Gabriel - Anarchy & Alchemy"	Destroy All Concepts
2008	"Sweat Shop"	Stainless Style Stainless Style Stainless Style is the debut album from Neon Neon—a project from Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys and electronic artist Boom Bip—which was released in March 2008 via Lex Records. The album was streamed in its entirety on the band's Myspace page for one week before its physical release... by Neon Neon Neon Neon Neon Neon is a collaborative project from producer Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys, the frontman for the Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals. They began work on the project in October 2006 originally under the moniker Delorean...	Lex Records Lex Records Lex Records is an independent record label founded by Tom Brown in 2001. The label was an imprint of Warp Records and run from their North London offices, until September 2005.Lex has a low volume of releases, rarely releasing more than three albums annually...
2011	"Flavor feat. Yo Majesty"	Carbon Copy by ★STAR GUiTAR