Breaking news from Black America:
The African-American community has been decrying negativity in hip-hop for over a decade. Y'all haven't been paying attention.-- transgriot
Feel free to pass this along to your local 'but black people have never challenged negative rap' apologists armchair experts. Bonus points if heads explode over the concept of there being a black women's college and for the people in it to take part in community issues, like, rap and representation.
Actually, I remember people in Black communities being incensed over the cover to the Ohio Players album Fire in 1975, because it featured a black woman wearing a fireman's hat and clear plastic water hose, and nothing else and was considered extremely exploitative. And Donna Summer's Bad Girls album not too long afterwards, because people felt it portrayed women of color negatively and glorified prostitution. But it could just be me...
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I will freely admit i've shaken my groove thang to the rhythmic 'toot toot beep beep' but still.
EDIT: does anyone know what asha bandele piece transgriot's referring to?
Feel free to pass this along to your local 'but black people have never challenged negative rap' apologists armchair experts. Bonus points if heads explode over the concept of there being a black women's college and for the people in it to take part in community issues, like, rap and representation.
Actually, I remember people in Black communities being incensed over the cover to the Ohio Players album Fire in 1975, because it featured a black woman wearing a fireman's hat and clear plastic water hose, and nothing else and was considered extremely exploitative. And Donna Summer's Bad Girls album not too long afterwards, because people felt it portrayed women of color negatively and glorified prostitution. But it could just be me...
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I will freely admit i've shaken my groove thang to the rhythmic 'toot toot beep beep' but still.
EDIT: does anyone know what asha bandele piece transgriot's referring to?