hip hop
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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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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We All Gotta Eat: “Atlanta” and the Illusive Boundaries of Fame
What happens when your face becomes currency that you can’t benefit from?
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Komplex Kai Is the Native American Rapper You Should Be Listening To
Komplex talks to Bitch about his popular freestyles, the Dakota Access pipeline, and finding his sound.
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Brooklyn Personified: Young M.A Tells “Herstory”
Despite her controversial themes, Young M.A is a reverb of the cipher, a new rung of New York’s hip-hop greats.
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The Beat Got Thiccer: “Feminasty” Taunts and Flaunts Self Love
Miss Eaves sneezed on the beat and the beat got thiccer.
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