On With the Ladies in the Back at an Odd Future Show
@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith quite a few, yes. is that not clear enough? i can make it clearer.
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On With the Ladies in the Back at an Odd Future Show
@Christina Bee@twitter heyo, christina bee. i think that's dope. i am a female and i am white and this was the experience i had at that same show. i really admire that you didn't feel the need to do that.
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On 10 Rap Songs On Which Ladies Outshine Their Male Counterparts
3:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_7hzYHNGQo
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On Rap Music Is Good Now Because Rappers Aren't Afraid To Be Weird
i'm disappointed that nicki minaj and missy elliot didn't make the cut, but i'm more interested in what white people reveal about themselves/us when they/we celebrate "weirdness" in hip hop. we had this at my college all the time: white kids with dreads dancing around the quad with “Keep ___ Weird” signs. there and here, there's gotta be more to it. i think it’s true that odd future going on jimmy fallon and jay electronica signing with roc nation is an indication that hip hop consumers and labels are ready to allow black male rappers to maybe dissociate themselves from this very narrow public idea of what black male rappers can look like, be interested in, and say out loud, and that's really important. but i also think that a lot of white people, including me, and maybe you?, initially became interested in jay electronica because he made songs using samples from "eternal sunshine" instead of, say, "the godfather." when white people celebrate rappers like tyler & electronica being "weird," i think we might be demonstrating some subconscious comfort & relief at the music's characters becoming more accessible and intriguing to a very specific group of people. and it’s a people the music isn't really intended for in the first place.
all this to say that i'm also loving the weird shit.
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
thanks! yea, janine explained my intent. i guess what i meant subtextually is that it's the freshest narrative out right now because at base, because those are the newest kinds of rhymes in hip hop, and i think it's really powerful that women have that ability. but i'm a big cornball about this stuff.
and i've never had a foil anything so i'm thrilled.
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
is this my Black Friday?
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
ricky, you're fly, but i don't buy it! well, a couple things. first is, a lot of male rappers have ghostwriters. usually, nobody assumes, but for women, it's immediate. yea, i'm throwing up the double standard flag.
for what it's worth, i think nicki is a very methodical and talented writer. also a ghostwriter herself! check the track "saxon," which she recorded as a demo for rihanna's Rated R. she also addresses the Wayne assumption quite a bit, because people bring it up all the time. she was in the BET Awards Cypher a year ago, and got booed because everyone thought it was a pre-written verse (duh, it was. so was every dude's!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85H9H32oUBI). so she had to defend herself in an interview with TT Torrez: "I don't need a dude to write my shit; Wayne never wrote my shit, no one writes my shit." it's more likely that she sometimes sounds like Wayne because like a lot of other rappers, she was influenced by his flow.
this is worth a look, too. she's writing! and it's so so original! who else could deliver this verse?: http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/601324/nicki-explains-writes-and-spits-romans-revenge.jhtml#id=1653117
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On Selling Herself Short: The Miscontexualization of Nicki Minaj
hi mr. whipsnade. thanks! you know, i don't know what to make of that. nicki has talked a lot in interviews about how she explicitly chose to back down from overtly sexual lyrics, but she says it's because she realized she'd become a powerful/representative voice for young girls, and she didn't want that to be her only lyrical influence. but she doesn't really bring bisexuality into that conversation. i don't know if she "really is" bisexual or if it made for some great rhymes & attention on her come-up, but i do think that her bringing the topic into a rhyme scheme in the first place is really important and brave.
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On Kanye’s '808s': How A Machine Brought Heartbreak To Hip Hop
@iantenna So Kool Herc from the start, and Clams Casino in the past year. Those are bookend leaps that are really about sound -- in 808s, I think the leap is more about what Kanye was saying on wax, and how he used sound to make it OK to say it.