Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music, it won't go like that. We need "be happy with your body" lyrics, "love yourself wholly and truly and you'll never be alone waiting for Tyrone to call you" lyrics. Oh and we must address this cult of "chickenhead envy," a phrase coined by the "hip hop feminist" Joan Morgan, the bandit that dogs sisters who work hard and feel that they deserve a salaried member of the male population only to feel that they often lose him to girls who make it their life goal to catch this type of man. There needs to be several...
Farai Chideya spoke at Harvard last Saturday at the NextLevel. She talked about how she made it, and made it she has. She's ABC News' youngest correspondent, a two-time author and quite a success story. Hip hop's oldest magazine, The Source, sent its deputy editor, Dimitry Leger, to talk about breaking into hip hop journalism. (He gave great tips, the majority of which included having people you want to meet and speak to on speed dial, calling them until they talk to you, and a willingness to suffer). Kevin Shand, National Marketing Director at Rawkus records...
...hop. The 20-year-old phenomenon can be defined, under the ancient definition, as a social movement that was started by the black and Puerto Rican underclass in the Bronx during the late '70s, or by the '90s version of the term, as a culture that includes a type of spoken-word-over-beats music with a collection of dance videos that are now seeping into the houses of the world's elite. The definitions are part of a continuum; what started as the cries of a disadvantaged group has become a billion dollar industry, one where the investors need...
...only space that I see for women is one that makes room for subversion, because if women are going to argue for room at all, it needs to be new room. Let me restate: Honey, we gotta make a change. In fact, if we are to look at hip hop from a progressive-evolutionist stand point, we'd have to say that the boys can never go back to the way they were, go back to speaking because they didn't really have a voice. The existence of ice rocking, megalo-maniacal, comic book/mob-movie obsessed opportunists is going to keep...
...Making child care glamorous is tough, so I propose that we get confrontational. Men's insistence that we can't raise our children bugs me. Let's take it to the stage. The constant mantra in male hip hop is about the absense of a father, while mentioning the mother only because she was there, like a stand in. Boo! Okay, the woman's place in the family is extremely important, and women emcees should speak to the world about this. The best way is to not even engage men in debate about whether or not the role...