This article appears in full in my book WORD: Rap, Politics & Feminism, and online at the Museum of the African Diaspora’s salon “I’ve Known Rivers” Project. ~ Rap is something you do Hip-hop is something you live —KRS-ONE, “Get Yourself Up”, Hot 12” Rap and hip-hop...
Changing the vision and image of one of hip-hop’s most prolific voices was like changing the voice of urban America.
It seemed as if the regular slights, sexism and overt discrimination in rap music gave women rappers the collective strength to push the truly brave female rap artists to the forefront.
They didn’t fit into the hip-hop or R&B categories. They weren’t “hoodied” up with a hard assed scowl or conked up in a purple Chess King suit and a pair of EK glasses.
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