Neon Hitch - Beg, Borrow & Steal (2011)

Neon Hitch was born on 25 May 1986 in Kingston upon Thames, before moving at a young age to the countryside of Nottingham, and she resented her parents for her birth name of Neon, and wanted to change it to something more conventional, but eventually decided to keep it. When their house burned down, her mother bought a caravan to live in, and they grew up in a Romani community travelling around Europe, and consequently she never attended school. By the age of four she was travelling and performing with the Archaos circus, and by the time she was in her teens she was trained as a trapeze artist, fire swinger and stilt walker, and had performed across Europe. She'd begun writing poetry when she was 10, which led to her writing lyrics, and a boyfriend noticed that she could sing and encouraged her to carry on with her singing. In 2010 she was signed to Warner Bros. Records by Kara DioGuardi, and she began recording her debut album, 'Beg, Borrow & Steal', in March with Benny Blanco. In January 2011 she released the promotional single 'Get Over U', co-written by singer Sia, for free, and then to digital retailers in February. This was followed by 'Silly Girl', 'Bad Dog' and 'Poisoned With Love', and she also released a series of covers and mash-up covers of songs by other artists, including Wiz Khalifa's 'On My Level', Waka Flocka Flame's 'No Hands' and Kreayshawn's 'Gucci Gucci'. 

During 2012 she released the official lead single of 'Beg, Borrow & Steal, 'Fuck U Betta', followed by 'Gold', co-written by singer Bruno Mars, and both songs peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In January 2013 she announced her next release would be the EP 'Happy Neon', which was released for free through Billboard.com on 14 January. On 12 November 2013 she was featured on campus.ie, where she revealed that she and her team had completely scrapped the 'Beg, Borrow & Steal' album because she said she "felt there was not enough of my soul in it", and she discussed the release of a mixtape called '301 To Paradise' in early 2014, saying that the mixtape was a very good preview of what was going to come out on her brand new debut album to be released later that year. The six-tracker was released on 3 January 2014, and it was produced and co-written by NYC-based hip-hop group and songwriting duo Kinetics & One Love, and features two verses from rapper Kinetics. With the demise of 'Beg, Borrow & Steal', Hitch started work on new material for her debut album, but enough tracks had either been released as singles or leaked online to piece it back together, and so here is Neon Hitch's abandoned first album 'Beg, Borrow & Steal' from 2011. 

Track listing

01 Intro (Beg, Borrow & Steal)
02 Hello 
03 Bad Dog 
04 Silly Girl 
05 Fuck U Betta 
06 Poisoned With Love 
07 Picasso
08 Gold (feat. Tyga) 
09 Get Over U 
10 My Hand
11 I'm Doing Me

12 U + Me
13 Zombie (I Just Wanna Dance)
14 Dare U 2 Love Me