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“The Motherlode” – A Beautiful, Undefinable History of Women in Hip-Hop

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date February 16, 2021
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“Men write history, but women live it.”
Chloe Angyal

It’s true that history is written by the victors, but it’s also been predominately written by men. That is especially true in hip-hop. As the culture closes in on its fiftieth birthday, the contributions of women, whether behind the mic or behind the scenes, have been largely overlooked, marginalized, or outright ignored.

The Motherlode (Abrams, 2021) by Clover Hope could help begin to change that. A cogent and forceful entry in the ongoing need to give the ladies their due, it is a book that is undefinable, or at least not easily categorized, that also happens to be the definitive history of women in hip-hop.

Tags Book Reviews, Books, Foxy Brown, Hip-Hop, Lil Kim, Rap, XXL

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An Incomplete List of My (Unrequited) Famous Loves

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date August 11, 2016
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I’ve had a multitude of famous crushes over the years.

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Tags Alyssa Milano, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Crush, Danica McKellar, Ferris Bueller, Foxy Brown, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Judy Reyes, Katie Nolan, Mary-Louise Parker, Rosario Dawson, Scrubs, The West Wing, Tina Fey

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Nas & AZ – The Album We Need

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date May 12, 2016
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It seems that Nas has had some sort of history with seemingly everyone in the world of hip-hop.

Tags AZ, Foxy Brown, Hip-Hop, Illmatic, Nas, Playlist, Rap, The Firm

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Nineteen Ninety-Sex: The Year of Rap’s Femme Fatales

Post author By Christopher Pierznik
Post date February 8, 2016
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“I used to be scared of the dick/Now I throw lips to the shit, handle it like a real bitch”

Lil’ Kim was 22-years-old on November 12, 1996, when she uttered those lines, the first lyrics on her debut album, Hard Core. Just one week later, 18-year-old Foxy Brown released her own debut, Ill Na Na, and together the two Brooklyn College Academy alumni set the course for female emcees for the next two decades, changing the way women in hip-hop present themselves to the world — and how they are received by it.

From the cover photos to the lyrics to the album titles, almost nothing was left to the imagination, and with their lethal combination of sexy and street, they easily appealed to fans from both genders.

While Kim and Foxy may not have been the first female hip-hop artists to use their looks as their strongest weapon, they were certainly the most visible and, at least up until that point, the most successful.