Unlady Like

Unlady Like is the second studio album by American rapper Mia X. It was released on June 24, 1997, on No Limit Records, distributed by Priority Records and EMI, and featured production from Beats By the Pound. The album made it to number 21 on the Billboard 200 and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA.^[1] Fellow No Limit Soldiers Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mr. Serv-On, Fiend, Mac, Kane & Abel, KLC, Mystikal, Mercedes, Mo B Dick, O'Dell and Big Ed are featured, along with Foxy Brown. The song "The Party Don't Stop" charted on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Airplay chart in August 1997.

AllMusic editor Leo Stanley was critical of the "cheap production and borrowed ideas" throughout the album, but concluded that "Mia X has personality and can occasionally toss out a funny line, and there are a few cuts where it all gels; that's where Unlady Like becomes highly entertaining, sub-gangsta hardcore hip-hop."^[2] In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau criticized the "predictably generic" boasts, "typically excessive" runtime and the overabundance of cliches, but after hearing Mia X's ode to her deceased friend, he critiqued that "her declarations of leather-skinned cynicism and wit's-end vulnerability take on a retrospective weight that counterbalances their surface contradictions."^[3]