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...celebration of Ludacris’s manhood than a tribute to women. The album includes a remix of “My Chick Bad,” which Ludacris christens, “The Pussy Rules the World Version.” Though the song features three female rappers??Diamond, Trina, and Eve—it still affirms women only in regard to their superior sex skills, clothes, and bodies...
...phresh” rappers includes standing in front of their expensive cars, caressing their “Dougie” hairstyles, and hitting up the club—where they further caress their “Dougie” hairstyles. In between are token hip-hop video screenshots: the rappers?? faces complete with shades, grillz, and bling juxtaposed with scrolling close-ups of well-oiled legs. Hos in short denim skirts and stilettos do the “Dougie” dance, there are shots of rims, and a recent rap-video favorite appears: a little boy, dancing...
...fresh old-school beat a la the music of Marley Marl or the Fearless Four. The footage is interspersed with clips of MCs in studio, spitting their self-proclaimed “classic” rhymes, as well as shots of graffiti artists creating murals of the rappers?? names and the shoes. However, instead of showcasing the timeless attributes of early hip hop culture, the video serves only to show how different things are, nowadays. The irony is that, regardless of how many so-called hip hop tropes are thrown across the screen, this song is about shoes...
...fault—perhaps the market is simply providing fans with the material that they are most willing to purchase. Even if this is true, it is important to note that many hip-hop devotees like the genre simply for its entertainment value and not because they support the rappers?? activities. The lyrics become lethal when the listeners fail to see a difference between fiction and reality. When this occurs, it is the hip-hop artists, and not the fans, who should be held responsible. Simply put, the artists are accountable because they are the ones who actively...
...says the city is a bizarre reversal of traditional regional hip-hop politics: the underground artists are dominating the audiences, at the expense of what he calls “the so-called ‘hood rappers??, the kids from the streets, telling their stories...