in particular the line of...While reading Ayana Byrd’s essay “Claiming Jezebel: Back Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip Hop,” while preparing for my lecture on women’s bodies and rap videos I came across an interesting quote by and about Foxy Brown? on the “Ain’t No Nigga” era. Byrd writes quoting Foxy, “At sixteen I was just so happy [...]
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“He Sleeps Around But He Gives Me A Lot”
Sunday, November 7th, 2010Crack and Hip Hop Politically Underdeveloped Young People
Sunday, November 15th, 2009On a fluke a few of weeks ago, I picked up a dvd about theBlack Panthers and the student and employee strike at SFState that created the first Black Studies department in the country. It was in watching this video that realized that both crack and hip hoppolitically underdeveloped young people. Much of this statement [...]
