IVY KARMA
It’s never ordinary when you run into a female MC with such style and grace as Toronto’s own Ivy Karma. Lyrically, she is better than the best before and after her. Her level of talent can only be found in a galaxy much like the Milky Way which encompasses the earth and all within. Call her a star or better yet, a comet because her velvety sophistication comes with custom made sexiness. Her raspy voice melts away in the hearts of audiences in the underground and mainstream circuits everywhere. O.Gs want her by their side yet she is a triple threat that every female MC yearns to be. She brings a perspective to the game which bears no resemblance. She is a rare challenge for even the sickest male MC.
Witty she is, charming in fact, ever so gorgeous and sweet but make no mistakes that her savvy tongue is lyrically adept as an elite MC who holds no punches. With street smarts embedded in her swagger, Karma has left her mark in the underground music scenes all over Canada including the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). She has won over the hearts of many with her soulful versatility. Karma brings class converged with intelligence and combines that with a venomous wordplay that draws hardcore hip hoppers from every corner of the city with a thirst for the real deal. Evident in her most recent hit ‘You’re a Bitch’, Yazmine puts a brilliant spin on her remake of the song ‘You’re a Jerk’, by The NU Boyz to show a female’s perspective to the concept.
Yazmine was raised in bedlams deep inside the heart of Toronto where she stumps her way through the male dominated music industry making her ground breaking accomplishments seem effortless. This is partly because Yazmine aka Ivy Karma is no stranger to pain and struggle. With the release of her debut album entitled ‘What Goes Around, Come Around’, she comes full circle with her strengths that came from adverse difficulties and drove the perspectives in her music. As a young girl Yazmine started out as a child star actress and became well known after she appeared in several commercials. Then as fate would have it, she got involved in a near fatal car accident which brought her career to a screeching halt. Returning to her acting career was gruelling since scars from the accident prevented her from displaying her full prowess to the utmost extent. It took years of therapy to reach full recovery after which her parents became reluctant to allow the young star to return to acting. They had not fully grasped the depths of her God given talent.
Ivy has an everlasting zeal. She began to accompany her uncle who was a hip hop DJ, to hip hop events wherever he played and at that early stage in her life a new passion was conceived in her heart. Some of her musical influences are The Notorious BIG, Total, Mary J. Blidge, The Fugees and Tupac Shakur. Yazmine began chronicling her life through writing her own songs and Ivy Karma was born. But tragedy would strike once again when she was fourteen (14). Her parents spit up. Once again her career came to another halt. Ivy Karmas’ new therapy became her song writing. Music took her through the rigors of family divorce. She coped with going through teenage without a fatherly oversight by toughening up and venting her dissatisfaction through prose writing and that launched her career in performing arts. In 2006 she released a critically acclaimed mixtape entitled ‘2 Sides of A Dime’ which established her as a prominent voice in the underground hip hop circuit of
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