Sammus

"Lately [M'other Brain] is the only album that I can listen to straight through. Sammus is a super smart gamer girl that produces and raps. Is this a nerd’s dream that’s comes true or what?!?"
- Beats + Crates

"The artist name is Sammus, and she is a producer/emcee that is doing something that I find very different and creative– sampling video game music and creating dope songs to melodic 16bit inspired backdrops. This is strictly for the cool, so if you’re a fan of Trina or Diamond this just might go over your head." - Life Tech Music

Listen if you like: the idea of a video game universe where Princess Peach saves Mario to the sounds of College Dropout. - Bitch Magazine

This Week's Rapper (and Producer): Sammus

This Week's Subject(s): The top five songs for rappers to hijack for remixes

Ask A Rapper: For the past few weeks, everyone has been going yo-yo for Ricky Ross's "B.M.F." beat. Remixes have popped up all over. You really don't even have to look outside of Houston to find any. Bun did it. Trae did. Lil Flip did it. Lil' Ray did it. So here's the question, rapper/producer: Name your five favorite "Oh, Man, I Have To Make My Own Version Of This Song" tracks and why. - Houston Press

"Backed up by hypnotic, well-crafted beats, Sammus put on one of the strongest acts of the night, surprising many at The Haunt with her finale “Mayhem.” - The Cornell Daily Sun

"The girl clearly has skills and a passion for Hip Hop, keeping true to her art form. Sammus offered a positive, forward thinking set of jams." - Upstate Live Music Guide

Back in July, Random and Homeboy Sandman gave y’all bad ass kids a little sample of what goes on in the “Faculty Lounge,” via their collabo cut. This time around, Mega Ran adds two more teachers-turned-rappers Donwill and Sammus to heat up the “Faculty Lounge” remix. “Faculty Lounge is more of a call for help than a venting session,” Ran says. “As a teacher, I can recall many days of lamenting over the lack of resources, only to find that many other educators had the same or even worse circumstances in their own classrooms. We all know the hard times that teachers face, especially today.” Ran’s new album, Mega Ran in Language Arts Volume 3, will be out next month. - Okayplayer

On the remix for "Faculty Lounge," off his upcoming album Language Arts Volume 3, Phoenix rapper Mega Ran joins fellow teacher-turned-rappers Donwill, Homeboy Sandman, and Sammus. The DN3-produced single, with scratches by DJ LES735, touches on each rapper's past experience as educators in a segregated--and sadly unmotivated--school environment. - XXL

"As an emcee, Sammus has a clear and confident delivery, and it’s with this self-assuredness on the mic that she’s able to navigate such touchy subject matters in hip hop"
- Scratched Vinyl

"Blast this album and share with your friends, because this girl needs to be heard." - Rainy Dawg Radio

“Got your hoodie on / they wanna stare at ya / they think you fully armed, black in America,” flows rapper, producer and fellow Cornell student, Sammus, in a track titled “America.” As she points out, criminality has been made synonymous with being black." - The Cornell Daily Sun

"With an enthusiastic flow, she poses questions like “How can I write about kissing you when I don’t want to share it with anyone?” Little does she know, in an effort to protest crafting a love song, she has actually put a refreshing twist on the popular genre. " - DJBooth.net

"But unlike her idol, Sammus seems much more content with her as-is identity. As she puts it, “her hope [is] that listeners and future fans will be pleasantly surprised by the contrast between the person society says she should be as an artist and who she actually is.”" - Société Perrier