Feminist Current

Rolling Stone magazine recently came out with a list of the 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, which included only three female-fronted tracks. With so many great female MCs out there, why are women so underrepresented in hip-hop and how can we change that? On this episode of Feminist Current, I talk to journalist [...]

So Rolling Stone came out with a ‘50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time’ list this past week. Though the list includes much hip-hop greatness, there are more than a few oddities — Gang Starr, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Pharcyde don’t make the cut, they tacked B.O.B. by Outkast on at number 50 when [...]

Angel Haze’s intimate and brutally honest track “Cleaning out my Closet” has been making waves as she comes out about the horrific sexual abuse she suffered as a child (I don’t usually do trigger warnings, but this track is extremely graphic and pretty hard to listen to). The track is on her recently released mixtape, [...]

Man, I am so sick of people who hate rap music talking about how they justcantstand how sexist it is and ohmygodtheswears! You know why you hate hip hop? It’s because you don’t actually listen to it. And when you do it just happens to be the most mainstream of all hip hop and, unfortunately, [...]

In and around 1997, my favorite song was “I’m A Player” by Too Short. CLASSIC feminist track. No. Stop. Please don’t look it up.  From  “Me and My Bitch”, to “Blowjob Betty” and on to the many, many sensuous lyrics of Slick Rick and the commitment-phobic prose of NWA, I learned young how to rhyme [...]