{"id":261,"date":"2013-11-05T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=261"},"modified":"2017-10-31T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T01:18:36","slug":"the-feminist-rap-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/11\/05\/the-feminist-rap-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feminist Rap Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUEST POST BY FEGOSSEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hip-hop gets a bad rep in the feminist world. Songs like \u201cGet Low\u201d, \u201cLollipop\u201d, \u201cSlow Motion\u201d, and \u201cGolddigger\u201d paint a pretty ugly picture for the rap artists out there. This is vastly unfair. Yeah, the majority of rappers and hip-hop artists are men who have a tendency to focus on a rather sexist male perspective. I recently looked up the lyrics to Freddie Gibb\u2019s \u201cShame\u201d and realized, yeah, it\u2019s a song about the walk of shame. Oh, and how good Freddie Gibbs is in bed. (I\u2019m still listening though. Gibbs is amazing.)<\/p>\n

But the female hip-hop artist isn\u2019t about to put up with this shit. They\u2019re probably some of the most liberated voices out there, not just as shining beacons in a form known for its objectification of women, but also as the voice of women. Here are three albums all by female rap artists every feminist should be listening to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Queen Latifah\u2019s Black Reign
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    Instinct leads me to another flow everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a hoe trying to make a sister feel low you know all of that gots to go<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    This album is fantastic, 90\u2019s rap from someone we (at least I) often forget used to rap. The song \u201cU.N.I.T.Y\u201d is an angry rant at the men who think they can just smack your ass whether you\u2019re wearing cut off shorts (oh nineties, we miss you) or sweat pants, and will call girls a bitch. In \u201cMood is Right\u201d, Queen Latifah tells us she thinks the sex is better if you\u2019re in love and that she really doesn\u2019t need anyone else. This icon was giving women a voice long before Chicago<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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    1. Azealia Banks\u2019 EP 1991<\/i> and Broke with Expensive Taste<\/i> (released next year)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      You could see I been that bitch since the Pamper and that I am that young sis, the beacon, the bitch who wants to compete<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Banks has a beautiful new voice. Whereas the other women on this list are speaking out against a male dominated society, she\u2019s throwing shit right back on the same level as the guys. In the song \u201c212\u201d, she tells you straight up if you get in her way, she\u2019ll steal your girl and your spotlight. She hasn\u2019t even released the first album yet. We\u2019re all watching you darling! We\u2019re excited.<\/p>\n

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      1. Missy Elliott\u2019s Under Construction
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        I be representing for the ladies n\u2019 we got something to say. We been quite too long \u2013 lady-like, very patient. We didn\u2019t get mad when Prince had his ass out. We thought he was going to turn around to the front and have the front out too, but, you know, that didn\u2019t happen. We always had to deal with the guys, ya know, talking about how they gonna wear us out on records. So I had to do records that were strictly representing for my ladies n\u2019 how to keep your man, keep his eyes from wandering, looking around. And I\u2019m not saying sex is a topic we should sweep under the rug. I\u2019m not saying go out and do it, but if you do strap it up before you smack it up, flip it, throw it down, OH NO. Jimmy, drop it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

        This short speech appears at the end of the track \u201cPussycat\u201d. Yeah, Missy\u2019s fantastic. I don\u2019t have anything to say that she hasn\u2019t proved herself.<\/p>\n

        Thanks fegossen for submitting this post to us!<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        GUEST POST BY FEGOSSEN: Hip-hop gets a bad rep in the feminist world. Songs like \u201cGet Low\u201d, \u201cLollipop\u201d, \u201cSlow Motion\u201d, and \u201cGolddigger\u201d paint a pretty ugly picture for the rap artists out there. This is vastly unfair. Yeah, the majority of rappers and hip-hop artists are men who have a tendency to focus on a … Continue reading The Feminist Rap Movement<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83,102],"tags":[319,320,321,322,323,324,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}