Kreayshawn

Applying the lyrical flair of a stylized text message to simplistic, soulless cadences, Bay Area brat-rapper Kreayshawn comes off like a brash, female Fresh Prince for the YouTube generation — that is, if Will got booted from Bel Air Academy for slangin’ weed out of a Lisa Frank backpack. In such songs as the 2011 viral smash “Gucci Gucci,” she flashes faux-gangsta panache over glitter-bomb mall-cruisers. Michael Rietmulder