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FIVE. rachel raimist, amazing hip-hop feminist/scholar and director of essential 1999 women-in-hip-hop doc Nobody Knows My Name is doing a US DVD release of her film and is seeking beats, songs, b-girl battle footage, etc. for the updated release. For more, make a stop here.
FOUR. which reminds me, mi lady Miranda Jane sent these links way back in the paleozoic: archive of links, articles and info compiled by Rachel Raimist and Miranda Jane. AND list of references about hip-hop feminism or written by hip-hop feminists.
THREE. PRE-APOLOGY FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAM OF CONSCIOUS, UNPUNCTUATED NEEDLEDROP: whoever said r&B ladies proffer feminist response to misogy hip-hop first? Joan Morgan? Jeff Chang said it in his "AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNING" sociopolitical history of hip-hop can't stop won't stop( READ IT NOW IT IS SO IMPORTANT), also Mark Anthony Neal probably said it in a column, cause he is a supergenius-- and jess harvell said it again recently in his voice piece on teedra moses.
well anyway, 17 yr old Teairra Mari, "roc princess" has this new track called "get up on ya gangsta" which is my mall/living room/jogging anthem right now, and has become number 7 on my top singles of 05, between the mary j. blige hate it or love it remix and and spooky dance band's "Chemical reaction." sure sure teairra, with her R&B banging on la playa, she is a YOUNG HIP HOP r&b woman like ciara, amerie (nix on brooke valentine that alb, nay), her voice filling up the virtual CIPHER ZONE OF women rapping IN THE MAINSTREAM (barring missy, that one song on the missy album where mary j. raps, & kim and remy's forthcoming joints). go jigga and la reid. but also, a bunch of dudes wrote teairra's lyrics, which is kinda crazy cause it's like, WO SHIT! I FEEL LIKE she is totally singing to me and my girls! even tho there are too many songs within a monotheme: ("i'm keeping my pants on" or "my dad was totally absent so i'm keeping my pants on" or "you don't love me like my daddy didn't love me so i'm still keeping my pants on" but seriously, holler for the vocalization of absent-dad life) which makes me think maybe all the men writing her lyrics are EITHER: 1. really talented, 2. read as many teen magazines as i do, and/or 3. are/were in the throes of getting dumped.
anyway "get up on ya gangsta," produced by the genius poli paul for spencecow ent., llc--WHO ALSO WROTE "DIP IT LOW," WITH TEEDRA MOSES AND PRODUCED ON COMPLEX SIMPLICITY. DO NOT SLEEP!--poli paul, he would like to give us a slither snake apres-Timbo wobbly synth line and boom-chik, boom-chik syncopation, with a chorus that unfolds as follows: "he don't really love ya/he just wants to crush/get up on ya gangsta girl/and leave that n. alone" tuff gong. i'm totally sharpie-ing teairra mari on a t-shirt.
TWO. ebenezer is vacationing in germany, and yet he still finds time to send links... but openbar.com, it's not at all what you think. either way i'm like wtf eben homie, you're in Germany, eat some doner, see some museums, hit up a trahnce party, unplug.
hey jules! i had noticed the same thing about the majority of the songs on the teairra rec. which i must admit i copped for the lead off (only to play out) and then found myself listening to it more and more at home.