Last night, much of Twitter united to reclaim and rewrite our favorite less-than-progressive rap and hip hop lyrics. It was a beautiful thing. It all started when I was listening to 2 Chainz, which I do when there’s no one around to judge me for it, and I thought about the line “She got a Read More
Here is a link to a PDF of Berry’s 2005 article.
This afternoon, while on a Four Tops kick, I found and rocked their 1973 jam, “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I Got).” If you know me at all, you know what’s coming next, right? Why, an examination of female rap’s credibility, of course! Because my musical interests always send me spiraling down some hip-hop Read More
The Source is going to stop publishing sexually suggestive ads, in the hopes of attracting attracting mainstream advertisers. To that end, the magazine announced recently that it would no longer take what the co-publisher, L. Londell McMillan, calls “booty ads,” for pornographic films, pornographic Web sites or escort services. But those have been a Read More
At Too Sense, One Drop explains his distaste for gangsta rap: The problem is, a lot of the time these kids don’t know any actual black people. They have no way of knowing what is truth and what is fantasy. Gangsta rap plays into all of the old stereotypes about blacks: that they’re violent, over-sexed, Read More
With undoubtedly good intentions, penned a roundtable feature in The Boston Globe on Nas, The N-word, the NAACP, and generational conflict in black America. State-of-black-America clichés ensued.
Remember in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo when Kelly, Turbo and Ozone had to stop the developer from tearing down the neighborhood community center? This is like that, but real and with fewer headstands.
