One of my design instructors once said that if you surround yourself with garbage you will only ever produce garbage.
Why can men be poetic while women are expected to address domestic violence while wearing short-shorts in front of a burning house?
“Can’t Hold Us Down”: Our Tolerance of Misogyny in Hip-Hop
I wrote a (pretty weak) paper on women in Hip-Hop while in college and took the stance that artists like Lil Kim embracing and celebrating her sexuality was a good thing for the genre. I don’t think I necessarily believed it, but it made researching (ha… researching) and writing about it interesting. This article is a pretty thoughtful take on the other side of that argument.
