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...that society is handing these middle schoolers pre-packaged gender roles. At our talent show last week, the final—and most popular—song was “Take Ya Home” by the supposed fiancé of most of my female students: the rapper Lil BowWow. The chorus, which several female students sang in the background while dancing provocatively, glorifies the rapper, ending: “I mean you run through my mind like all the time to the point that I just wanna take ya home.” I found this song...
...administrators concerned about the rise in so-called freak dancing, a hip-grinding, sex-simulating step, recently increased the number of chaperones and gave them flashlights to bust dirty dancers. Several Los Angeles high schools have benched the C-walk, a hip-hop dance step popularized by rappers like Lil Bow Wow. The C stands for Crip--the Crips are a notorious L.A. gang credited with introducing the dance at least a decade ago. It has long since crossed gang lines, but school officials say the C-walk glamorizes gang life...
...Lycos Top 50, a popular gauge of searches performed on the Lycos service, has named its 20 most frequently searched-for men of 2001. Rappers rule the charts, with four placing in the Top 10: No. 10 Lil' Bow Wow, No. 6 Nelly, No. 3 Tupac Shakur and No. 2 Eminem. The Web's most wanted? Osama bin Laden. For more analysis on Web-search trends, check out the Yahoo! Buzz Index, which takes a daily snapshot of what's hot in various categories, and the Google Zeitgeist, which tracks entries head to head, such as PlayStation2 vs. Xbox...
Kokujo (girls who like black men) paint their skin cocoa, weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Lil' Kim--all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. In a country notorious for its disdain for people of color--pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty--the emergence of a subculture fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity...
...kokujo is easy to spot. She takes her fashion direction from Lil' Kim, favoring halters and short shorts to show off lots of deeply roasted skin. Her nails are long and painted, her ears decorated with big hoops, her lipstick frosty white. She can dance, she can drink, she can party. And she can hold her own against...