Women In Hiphop

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Making its debut with this issue in '99, Honey Magazine offered "the first magazine of its kind- a fearless entertainment, fashion and lifestyle magazine for young, urban women", according to its editors' letter. This issue featured Lauryn Hill on its cover, photos of black female artists and models, and essays ranging in topics from surviving in a male-dominated social space to understanding the death of a friend. Honey is able to connect black women to trailblazers in the fashion, entertainment, political and film worlds, and features articles about hair, friendship, careers, beauty, love, astrology, and the social scene.

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Written by Professor T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Pimps Up, Ho's Down questions the effect of hiphop music and culture on young black women. She argues that the portrayal of young black women in hiphop music videos, film, fashion, television shows, and on the Internet is available for mass consumption through media, and has therefore made black women's behavior in hiphop normal, acceptable, and entertaining. Sharpley-Whiting argues the effect of hiphop's alliance with the sex industry, compulsory heterosexual culture, and the permeation of the hiphop ethos on conceptions of love and romance on young black women.

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April 1993's issue of Rap Sheet explores the role of women in hiphop through interviews and features of male and female hiphop artists. Too Short explains the introduction of the words "ho" and "bitch" into hiphop vernacular as a way of describing women, Roxanne Shanté is featured in an interview and an article about her treatment of other women in her songs, and KRS-One speaks about misogynistic lyrics and the growing presence of female MCs.

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In its 20^th Year Anniversary Issue, the September 2008 issue of Cource Magazine featured Queen Latifah, the "First Lady of Hip Hip" on its cover. Features in the magazine include "Hip Hop's Best..." moments, albums, producers, athletes, cars, gadgets, games, sneakers, fashion, verse and year. It also contains an article about Vogue Italia's Black Issue, which featured over 50 black models in the issue.

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Reverse cover of Queen Latifah's 2008 Issue of Source.

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October 1992's Rap Pages explores women in rap through the perspectives of female artists and issues and on points such as sexuality in hiphop, female rapper rivalries, and the presence of black women behind the scenes in hiphop. The issue interviews the founder of Sugar Hill, Sylvia Robinson, female MC Shanté on her beef with other female MCs, feminist rapper Yo Yo, and a roundtable discussion between Sister Souljah, Dee Barnes, and The Poetess.

7/17

UCLA's African People's Magazine featured articles "Medusa & Feline Science", "African AIDS Crisis" and "Nightmare Turned Reality: Black Folk's Views on Bush Presidency and Republican Congress".

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The Winter 2000 Issue of Honey featured Lil' Kim on its cover with features on celebrity style (Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliot, Eve, Brandy, Da Brat and Faith Evans, exclusive interviews with DMX, Queen Latifah, and Coko of SVW. In the magazine, DMX, Q-Tip, and D'angelo model for the "Hot Boys" spread, socio-cultural issues beauty pageants are explored in"Miss Indian World", Lil' Kim opens about her beauty transformation, and Queen Latifah discusses her return to television with her own talk show.

9/17

The Socialist Review, a" forum in which radical politics, cultural dissent, political economy and socialist critique are developed, created, and creatively contested", released its 1995 volume on Unreal Women, Gangsta Rap, Hoop Dreams, and Opera Queens. The review includes articles "Turn Back the Fight" by Patricia R. Zimmerman, "Gangsta Pedagogy and Ghettocentricity: The Hip-Hop Nation as a Counterpublic Sphere" by Peter McLaren, "Out of the Ghetto and Into the Marketplace: Hoop Dreams and the Commodification of Marginality" by Jillian Sandell, "Why Postculturalism is the Dead End for Progressive Thought" by Barbara Epstein, "Unreal Women and Men Whole Love Them: Gay Gender Roles and Hausa Society" by Rudolf Gaudio, and "The Opera Queen: A Voice from the Closet" by Paul Robinson.

10/17

Rap Page's Feb 1997 issue featured Foxy Brown on the cover and interviews of Redman, Xzibit and Tony!Toni!Tone!. The issue also explores the CIA's John Deutch in light of the KRS-One drug conspiracy. The feature story on Foxy Brown challenged then 17-year-old Foxy Brown about the kinds of images she portrays in her raps, most notably the "gold-digging, drug-holding hoodratism" journalist Nikkei Duncan describes.

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The June 2001 Issue of Vibe included Missy Elliot discussing the release of her album Freaky Tales , Jadakiss' success after leaving Bad Boy for the Ruff Ryders label, Denise Rich's return to writing music after controversy became of her ex-husband's pardoning by President Clinton, and features on WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw and R&B artist Job B.

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Women in Rap (VHS) explores the inclusion of female rappers into the $500,000,000 male-dominated rap industry. It highlights the best female rappers of 2000, and also gives a history of women in hiphop, from Roxanne Shota to Salt-N-Peppa to 2000's stars, Lady-Luck, Rah Digga, and Charlie Baltimore.

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Check it While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip Hop Culture and the Public Space is a provocative study done by scholar Gwendolyn D. Pough. She explores the complex relationship between black women, hip-hop, and feminism. Examining a wide range of genres, including rap music, novels, spoken word poetry, hip-hop cinema, and hip-hop soul music, she traces the rhetoric of black women "bringing wreck." Pough demonstrates how influential women rappers such as Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Lil' Kim are building on the legacy of earlier generations of women--from Sojourner Truth to sisters of the black power and civil rights movements--to disrupt and break into the dominant patriarchal public sphere. She discusses the ways in which today's young black women struggle against the stereotypical language of the past and shows how rap provides an avenue to tell their own life stories, to construct their identities, and to dismantle historical and contemporary negative representations of black womanhood.

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B-Girl Be is a documentary film released in 2006 that celebrates women in hiphop. The documentary features FAIT47, Lady Pink, ZORI4, FEMME 9, SILOETTE, SHIRO, TOOFLY, Medusa, Ang 13, Maria Isa, DJ Pam the Funkstress, Hip-Hop Ambassador Toni Blackman, B-Girl ASIA ONE, B-Girl Rokafella, B-Girl Aruna, B-Girl GENESIS, B-Girl Mio, B-Girl Lady D, and B-Girl Morgana; Universal Dance Destiny, Art and Dance of the Collective, keynote speaker Dr. Roxanne Shante, photojournalist/historian Martha Cooper, Desdamona and many more artists.

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Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminist Anthology is a collection of essays that complicate understandings of Hiphop as a male dominated space by providing voices from women intrinsic to the culture. The anthology, compiled by scholars Gwendolyn Pough, Rachel Raimist, Elaine Richardson and Aisha S. Durham, explores Hiphop as an epistemology grounded in the experiences of communities of color under advanced capitalism, and as a cultural site for re-articulation of identity and sexual politics. The contributors include women working in Hiphop, both feminists, activists and scholars, writers and journalists.

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Nobody Knows My Name is a documentary by Rachel Raimist. The film showcases women connected to each other through their love of Hiphop music and culture. Raimist tells their stories of struggle in an industry that prioritizes male voices. The documentary features interviews with several female Hiphop artist, who together create a strong feminist community within the Hiphop scene. Raimist paves a much-needed avenue for these marginalized voices from the Hiphop community to be heard and make impact.