Here’s the video of Lady Sovereign’s complete breakdown on stage at Brooklyn’s Studio B.

She spends most of it (after each of two songs) explaining that she’s depressed, broke, didn’t want to do this show, hasn’t been able to create any new songs, and that “America F’s you up — F America.” Then she says she can’t continue and leaves. All this came after keeping the crowd waiting at least 90 minutes. She arrived on stage at 3:30 a.m. and was gone by 3:55.

From Perez Hilton:

“When the music finished, she complained about her poverty again, said she hated America, was depressed, showed the audience her arm which bore razor cuts (v. Courtney Love of her), and eventually went to the back of the stage and began crying as a body guard tried to calm her down and encourage her to finish her set, which was only slated to be 3 songs!” She then was like “Fuck this, I don’t care if I don’t get paid” and walked off after a quick talk with her DJ. Sovereign left the stage in tears , the crowd booed, and the promoters apologized.

Seems like the business is killing her. It’s a damn shame - she’s very talented.

Alyx had sent me something back in October of 2006 that foreshadows this. A friend of hers saw Lady Sovereign and had this to say about the show (10/27/06):

Lady Sovereign is a bad influence. I thought she was 15 when I saw her, and even though she is 20, she is still a bad ass, but like in an immature junior high kind of way. She took like an hour to get on stage, even though we could all see her in the balcony smoking cigarettes and drinking heinekens. She also kept pouring her beer onto the roadies who were getting the stage ready for her. When she finally got on stage, she proved to be quite a dynamic performer, but she is super crass. I guess that is part of her appeal. There was this dude dressed in a banana costume, that she coaxed on stage, jump kicked and then yelled “Get the Fuck Off My Stage”. It was very amusing. She also refused to perform for a time period until someone brought her another Heineken, and also when she thought she had lost her sunglasses (which she had actually thrown onto another part of the stage).

Lady Sovereign=The New Avril Lavigne. There were already girls dressed like her in the crowd.