Word: machoness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many rap lyrics, women are cast as pliant toys or conniving Delilahs. The male rappers who weave this image -- among them Ice Cube, Ice-T, Too Short and the Geto Boys -- spin exaggerated tales of salaciousness and violence, portraying themselves as potent, swashbuckling urban heroes. Since a macho image is a proven formula for success, rap producers were reluctant to sign female rappers. The music moguls were also fearful of challenging the form's rigid orthodoxies: in rap, as in heavy metal, feminine voices do not always supply the requisite loudness and abrasiveness...
...more politically sophisticated manner, Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) has staked out a high ground in rap. "Guys have this macho thing where they always have to be tough -- it's peer pressure, " she says. "I'm trying to show people another point of view." Latifah, an electrifying performer who favors jodhpurs and large hats, delivers a spiritual message that rises above the petty issues in the war of the sexes. In Ladies First she raps about optimism and pride: "We are the ones to give birth/ To the new generation of prophets...
...worked for free, the movie would have cost more than $80 million, or about five times what the original Terminator brought its distributor. The early word is that the new picture is worth every penny, but movie execs dare to hope that T2 is the last of the spendthrift macho movies...
...improvising as he went along. In short, the killer was young, highly intelligent, probably with a high school education, and possessed of a confident manner. The police eventually arrested a 175-cm, 7.3-kg (5-ft. 9-in., 160-lb.) black male who was physically strong, very bright and macho, worked in a fast-food restaurant and had been staying with his sister one building away from the victim. He was 15 years...
That is not to say that C+C lacks energy or an infectious sense of playfulness. A Groove of Love is a funny parody of macho music posturing, Ice- style ("Love to me means tight butt jeans/ Girls they only waste time with crushed dreams/ The mike is my bitch"). C+C's dance-music dazzlements have attracted such heavy-duty commercial talent as Mariah Carey, for whom it is helping produce the follow-up to her 4 million-selling debut album; and funk mistress Lisa Lisa, whose new record it is producing while she and Clivilles strike...