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A Disappointment Called Quest

No Comments 30 September 2006

It’s been a few days and I am as ready as I will ever be to tell this story. Yet, it still hurts me so…… Flashback- 1993: A young girl with a twinkle in her eye defies her mother’s orders and stays up to tape the Hip-Hop hour off the radio. She especially loves two [...]

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"Who Is Gonna Fund The Revolution?"

No Comments 28 September 2006

The first part is from Rhymefest’s blog- “Who Is Gonna Fund The Revolution” “When we think back on some of Black History’s greatest heroes such as Marcus Garvey, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley, even the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, we think of men with a sense of mission, the will to carry it out, [...]

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Soul, But Not For Real

No Comments 21 September 2006

People ask me about my venom for the white gals making our music. I hate the idea of members of the majority biting the style of an oppressed minority, making it wack and selling it back to us. I also have a real problem with the co-opting of our steez- meaning—just cause you want to [...]

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Gentrification: We Live In The Suburbs, Baby

No Comments 20 September 2006

Due to GENTRIFYING DEVILS, I — city girl number ONE, now live in a suburb. Ain’t that a bitch? Now, this is my first one bedroom, so I am super fucking geeked over that. And I’m literally 5 minutes outside the city. But it’s not fair!!!!!! For real ya’ll. Once again, Black (and Brown) people [...]

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Black Women Being Outsourced b/w Why I Don’t Watch Music Videos

No Comments 16 September 2006

Regular sistas have been out of style, but it seems that the video singers (read: the girls who wouldn’t sell a record or get a deal if they weren’t mainstream pretty.) better watch they back too. I have had the unfortunate luck of seeing videos by Cassie (I can’t even make a joke about her. [...]

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