hip hop
Hell Hath No Fury: The Importance of Black Women’s Rage in Music
Black women’s screams are often purposefully ignored, but channeling that anger in music forces people to pay attention.
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Rapped Up: Why Can’t the Mainstream Media Address Female MCs One at a Time?
As soon as the spotlight expands to allow another woman in, critics trip over themselves, cranking out long articles stuffed with several different female artists.
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BitchTapes: Tunes For The Perfect Summer Pool Party
Summer’s in full swing, and so too are pool parties.
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Rewarding Violence: Hip Hop Turns Abusers Into Martyrs
Black women are often asked to explain away the sins of Black men.
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BitchTapes: 17 Artists You Should Listen to this Summer
Celebrating musicians who are making excellent art on their own terms.
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Dear Kanye West: North and Chicago Are Not Your Karma
People call down girl children like plagues.
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Raw, Real, and Uncut: Cupcakke is Rap’s Sex-Positive Superstar
It’s possible to be Christian, sexually freaky, emotionally intelligent, moody, and political at the same time.
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Cardi B. is Free: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rocks the Mic
To cluck about the timing of a pregnancy in a woman’s career is surely to project one’s own antipathy about the visibility of motherhood for working women.
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The Impermissible Arrogance of Nicki Minaj
To be colored and a woman is to be perpetually ruled.
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BitchTapes: The Forgotten Women of Hip Hop
The mix features female hip-hop artists “from big names to virtual unknowns from the Golden Era to the mid-’90s.”
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