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“It’s been assumed I’m soft or irrelevant/’Cause I refuse to downplay my intelligence.” So raps Dessa on “Bullpen,” from her debut album, A Badly Broken Code, released earlier this year on the Doomtree imprint. Although her inherent “hardness” has yet to be tested, it’s clear that Dessa is an intelligent MC who clearly has something to say. Hailing from Minneapolis, the home of a vibrant underground hip-hop scene, Dessa brashly raps about the struggles she faces being a female rapper, a businesswoman and a published author. (Visit Backbeatblog.com to read an in-depth Q&A with Dessa.)
